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Table 3 The top 10 cited publications

From: Global research trends of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus: a bibliometric analysis

SCRa

Authors

Title

Year of publication

Source title

Cited by

IFb

1st

Zaki et al [5]

Isolation of a novel coronavirus from a man with pneumonia in Saudi Arabia

2012

New England Journal of Medicine

645

55.873

2nd

Assiri et al [40]

Hospital outbreak of middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus

2013

New England Journal of Medicine

256

55.873

3rd

van Boheemen et al [45]

Genomic characterization of a newly discovered coronavirus associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome in humans

2012

MBio

217

6.786

4th

Raj et al [46]

Dipeptidyl peptidase 4 is a functional receptor for the emerging human coronavirus-EMC

2012

Nature

216

41.456

5th

Reusken et al [41]

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus neutralising serum antibodies in dromedary camels: A comparative serological study

2013

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

190

22.433

6th

de Groot et al [18]

Middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV): Announcement of the coronavirus study group

2013

Journal of Virology

172

4.439

7th

Assiri et al [2]

Epidemiological, demographic, and clinical characteristics of 47 cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus disease from Saudi Arabia: A descriptive study

2013

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

150

22.433

8th

Bermingham et al [6]

Severe respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus, in a patient transferred to the United Kingdom from the Middle East, September 2012

2012

Eurosurveillance

148

5.722

9th

Guery et al [42]

Clinical features and viral diagnosis of two cases of infection with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus: A report of nosocomial transmission

2013

The Lancet

139

45.217

10th

Memish et al [43]

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in Bats, Saudi Arabia

2013

Emerging Infectious Diseases

137

6.751

10th

Memish et al [44]

Family cluster of middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus infections

2013

New England Journal of Medicine

137

55.873

  1. SCR, Standard competition ranking; NA, Not available; IF, Impact factor
  2. a Equal articles have the same ranking number, and then a gap is left in the ranking numbers
  3. b The impact factor was reported according to the journal citation reports (JCR) 2014