Most impactive journals
A total of 428 journals published publications related to CRS and NPs,
and we filtered them by the number of publications ≥5 and citations ≥50,
and a total of 83 journals were eligible.
The journal with the highest number of publications was the
International Forum Of Allergy & Rhinology (n=365), with an average
publication year of 2016.7671, followed by the American Journal Of
Rhinology & Allergy (n=318), Journal Of Allergy And Clinical
Immunology (n=188) and Rhinology (n=188) (Supplementary table
4). Among the top 10 journals with the most publications, the
Journal Of Allergy And Clinical Immunology-in
Practice (n=2019.6389), International Forum Of Allergy &
Rhinology (n=2016.7671), European Archives Of
Oto-Rhino-Laryngology (n=2016.0061) had an average later year of
publication. These journals produced more cutting-edge articles in
recent years. In addition, according to our screening criteria, the most
cited journal was the Journal Of Allergy And Clinical
Immunology (n=13739), with an average of 73 citations per article,
followed by the International Forum Of Allergy &
Rhinology (n=7813) (Table 2).
We plotted the inter-journal citation network of these 83 journals and
distinguished their average publication year by color, showing the
citation relationship between different journals (Supplementary figure
3). Such as the International Forum Of Allergy &
Rhinology and the European Archives Of Oto-Rhino-
Laryngology had a strong citation relationship.
According to Bradford’s Law[18-19], evidence of
the regularity of the distribution of scientific journals, it is always
a small number of journals that contribute to the core sources in a
field. We used the Bibliometrix R package to calculate the leading
contributing journals in the research of CRS and NPs. They were
the International Forum Of Allergy & Rhinology , American
Journal Of Rhinology & Allergy , Journal Of Allergy And Clinical
Immunology , Rhinology , Laryngoscope , European
Archives Of Oto-Rhino- Laryngology (Figure 3A).
We constructed the dual-map overlay of journals using CiteSpace
software (Figure 3B). It showed the citation relationships between
journals and co-cited journals, with clusters of citing journals on the
left and clusters of cited journals on the right. For example,
Molecular/ Biology/ Immunology was often cited by Molecular/ Biology/
Genetics, Dentistry/ Dermatology/ Surgery was often cited by Molecular/
Biology/ Genetics, and Medicine/ Medical/ Clinical was often cited by
Molecular/ Biology/ Genetics.