Table 1.
Characteristics of source articles in the feasibility study
| Source article | Publication field | Publication year | Years since publication | Number of citations | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Articles in English | Articles not in English* | Books and book chapters* | Total citations | ||||
| 1 | Multidisciplinary Sciences | 1997 | 20 | 353 | 16 | 24 | 393 |
| 2 | Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems, Peripheral Vascular Disease | 1994 | 23 | 184 | 35 | 15 | 234 |
| 3 | Endocrinology & Metabolism | 1995 | 22 | 179 | 5 | 1 | 185 |
| 4 | Rheumatology | 2009 | 8 | 127 | 3 | 3 | 133 |
| 5 | Infectious Diseases | 2005 | 12 | 102 | 8 | 7 | 117 |
| 6 | Endocrinology and Metabolism, Nutrition & Dietetics | 2009 | 8 | 108 | 1 | 4 | 113 |
| 7 | Clinical Neurology, Psychiatry, Surgery | 1994 | 23 | 85 | 18 | 9 | 112 |
| 8 | Clinical Neurology | 2002 | 15 | 76 | 9 | 4 | 89 |
| 9 | Clinical Neurology | 2001 | 16 | 56 | 21 | 4 | 81 |
| 10 | Urology & Nephrology | 1996 | 21 | 45 | 31 | 2 | 78 |
| 11 | Clinical Neurology | 2001 | 16 | 71 | 4 | 1 | 76 |
| 12 | Medicine, Legal, Pathology | 2003 | 14 | 61 | 6 | 1 | 68 |
| 13 | Immunology, Neurosciences | 2001 | 16 | 62 | 2 | 3 | 67 |
| 14 | Peripheral Vascular Disease | 2006 | 11 | 56 | 4 | 3 | 63 |
| Total | 1,565 | 163 | 81 | 1,809 | |||
*
These categories were excluded from subsequent analyses