Available online 5 December 2022

Aneurysms located on the middle cerebral artery (MCA) range from 22% to 31.5% in prevalence of all aneurysms in anterior cerebral circulation. This bibliometric analysis summarizes the most-cited articles on MCA aneurysms and highlights the landmark publications that contributed to today's evidence-based practice.

In the execution of this bibliometric-based review article, the Scopus database was used to perform a title-specific, keyword-based search for all publications until August 2022. The keyword “(middle cerebral artery OR MCA) AND aneurysm” was used. Our results were arranged in descending order based on the article’s citation count. The 100 most-cited articles were selected for analysis. Parameters included the following: title, citation count, citations per year, authors, specialty of first author, institution, country of origin, publishing journal, Source Normalized Impact Per Paper (SNIP), and Hirsch index were collected.

The keyword-based search showed that 1206 articles were published up to August 2022 on MCA Aneurysms. The top 100 articles were published between 1940 and 2019. The top 100 most cited articles collected a total of 6232 citations with an average of 62.3 citations per paper. The rate of self-citations accounted for an average of 5.75% of the total number of citations.

The bibliometric analysis provides a quantitative overview of how medical literature and interventions are analyzed in academic medicine. In the present study, we evaluated the global trends in research regarding MCA aneurysms by finding the top 100 most cited papers.

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