A Bibliometric Analysis of Global Scientific Research on Scrub Typhus

Table 1

The top 10 highly cited documents on ST.

Rank	Author, year	Document title	Journal	TC	TCY	TD	IF (2020)
1^st	Watt G & Parola P, 2003	Scrub typhus and tropical rickettsioses	Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases	254	14.11	Review	4.557
2^nd	Kelly DJ et al., 2009	Scrub typhus: the geographic distribution of phenotypic and genotypic variants of Orientia tsutsugamushi	Clinical Infectious Diseases	228	19.00	Article	8.313
3^rd	Watt G et al., 1996	Scrub typhus infections poorly responsive to antibiotics in northern Thailand	Lancet	187	7.48	Article	60.392
4^th	Seong SY et al., 2001	Orientia tsutsugamushi infection: overview and immune responses	Microbes and Infection	170	8.50	Review	2.373
5^th	Traub R & Wisseman Jr CL, 1974	The ecology of chigger borne rickettsiosis (scrub typhus)	Journal of Medical Entomology	132	2.81	Article	1.955
6^th	KOH GCHW et al., 2010	Review: diagnosis of scrub typhus	American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene	126	11.45	Review	2.126
7^th	Berman SJ & Kundin WD, 1973	Scrub typhus in South Vietnam. A study of 87 cases	Annals of Internal Medicine	126	2.63	Article	21.31
8^th	Blacksell SD et al., 2007	Scrub typhus serologic testing with the indirect immunofluorescence method as a diagnostic gold standard: a lack of consensus leads to a lot of confusion	Clinical Infectious Diseases	125	8.93	Review	8.313
9^th	Tsay RW & Chang FY, 1998	Serious complications in scrub typhus	Journal of Microbiology, Immunology, and Infection	125	5.43	Article	3.493
10^th	Yeon JJ et al., 2007	Scrub typhus: clinical, pathologic, and imaging findings	Radiographics	123	8.79	Review	4.967
	Total			1596	98.13

TC: total citations; TCY: total citations per year; TD: type of document; IF: impact factor of journals (2020).