Most widely cited references
From 2003 to 2022, there were 58,708 co-cited references in studies
related to CRS and NPs, and we screened 241 references using a
co-citation count of ≥50 as the screening criterion.
We listed the top 10 most co-cited references (Supplementary table 5).
The highest number of co-citations was published in Rhinology by Fokkens
WJ et al., European Position Paper on Rhinosinusitis and Nasal Polyps
2012 (EPOS 2012) [20], with 1323 co-citations. In
2020, this article was updated and is now the European Position Paper on
Rhinosinusitis and Nasal Polyps 2020 (EPOS 2020)[1], the most authoritative and complete guide in
CRS. It provides a research base for researchers worldwide. Followed by
articles published by Lund Valerie J et al. [21](n=459) and Van Zele T et al. [22] (n=428), both
of which were published earlier, in 1993 and 2006. They illustrated the
staging in rhinosinusitis and the differences in the cellular and media
profiles of different types of CRS, respectively. These are both seminal
studies in the research of CRS and NPs, focusing on the endophenotypic
and immunological features of CRS. At the beginning of global scientific
work, they showed the most fundamental elements of CRS to a wide range
of scholars. The article with the fourth highest number of co-citations
was published in 2016, the most recent of the top 10 co-cited
references. Researchers analyzed IL-5, IFN-γ, IL-17A, TNF-α, IL-22,
IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8, eosinophilic cationic protein, myeloperoxidase,
TGF-β1, IgE, specific IgE and albumin in the patient tissue samples and
classified the inflammatory endotype of CRS by immunomarkers[23]. This article generated discussion throughout
the CRS and NPs fields about further refining the CRS immunophenotypic
delineation and remained impactive worldwide.
The top 10 co-cited references had a profound impact on the fundamental
research. Interestingly, these ten publications originated from only
four journals, with the Journal Of Allergy And Clinical
Immunology (IF=14.29, Q1) accounting for 5. At the same
time, Rhinology (IF=6.634, Q1) published the two references with
the highest number of co-citations. We constructed a co-cited reference
relationship network with co-cited citations ≥ 50 times (Supplementary
figure 4).