Table 1.
The top 10 highly cited documents on ST.
| Rank | Author, year | Document title | Journal | TC | TCY | TD | IF (2020) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Watt G & Parola P, 2003 | Scrub typhus and tropical rickettsioses | Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases | 254 | 14.11 | Review | 4.557 |
| 2nd | Kelly DJ et al., 2009 | Scrub typhus: the geographic distribution of phenotypic and genotypic variants of Orientia tsutsugamushi | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 228 | 19.00 | Article | 8.313 |
| 3rd | Watt G et al., 1996 | Scrub typhus infections poorly responsive to antibiotics in northern Thailand | Lancet | 187 | 7.48 | Article | 60.392 |
| 4th | Seong SY et al., 2001 | Orientia tsutsugamushi infection: overview and immune responses | Microbes and Infection | 170 | 8.50 | Review | 2.373 |
| 5th | Traub R & Wisseman Jr CL, 1974 | The ecology of chigger borne rickettsiosis (scrub typhus) | Journal of Medical Entomology | 132 | 2.81 | Article | 1.955 |
| 6th | KOH GCHW et al., 2010 | Review: diagnosis of scrub typhus | American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 126 | 11.45 | Review | 2.126 |
| 7th | Berman SJ & Kundin WD, 1973 | Scrub typhus in South Vietnam. A study of 87 cases | Annals of Internal Medicine | 126 | 2.63 | Article | 21.31 |
| 8th | Blacksell SD et al., 2007 | Scrub typhus serologic testing with the indirect immunofluorescence method as a diagnostic gold standard: a lack of consensus leads to a lot of confusion | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 125 | 8.93 | Review | 8.313 |
| 9th | Tsay RW & Chang FY, 1998 | Serious complications in scrub typhus | Journal of Microbiology, Immunology, and Infection | 125 | 5.43 | Article | 3.493 |
| 10th | Yeon JJ et al., 2007 | Scrub typhus: clinical, pathologic, and imaging findings | Radiographics | 123 | 8.79 | Review | 4.967 |
| Total | 1596 | 98.13 |
TC: total citations; TCY: total citations per year; TD: type of document; IF: impact factor of journals (2020).