Research Article

Top 100 Publications as Measured by Altmetrics in the Field of Central Nervous System Inflammatory Demyelinating Disease

Table 5

General issues discussed in the highly mentioned articles on central nervous system inflammatory demyelinating disease.

CategoryNo. of articles

Treatment and related complications45
Risk factorsā€‰
Environmental factors31
Genetic factors5a
CSF biomarkers1
Diagnosis and clinical characteristics8
Disease mechanism5
Economic and quality-of-life issues5

CSF: cerebrospinal fluid; No.: number. aThe Genes and Environment in Multiple Sclerosis (GEMS) project in the United States evaluated both genetic and environmental factors that lead to multiple sclerosis development in at-risk people; publication based on the GEMS was arbitrarily counted as articles on the subject of genetic risk factor.