Pandemic Critical Care Research during the COVID-19 (2020-2022): A Bibliometric Analysis Using VOSviewer

Table 3

Top-cited documents in pandemic critical care research.

Rank	Article	Title	Journal	Citation	REF
1^st	Grasselli G. [35]	Critical care utilization for the COVID-19 outbreak in Lombardy, Italy: early experience and forecast during an emergency response.	Journal of the American Medical Association	2596	[35]
2^nd	Helms J. [36]	High risk of thrombosis in patients with severe SARS-CoV-2 infection: a multicenter prospective cohort study	Intensive Care Medicine	1305	[36]
3^rd	Docherty A.B. [37]	Features of 20,133 UK patients in hospital with COVID-19 using the ISARIC WHO clinical characterisation protocol: prospective observational cohort study	The BMJ	1263	[37]
4^th	Grasselli G. [38]	Baseline characteristics and outcomes of 1591 patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 admitted to ICUs of the Lombardy region, Italy	JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association	1082	[38]
5^th	Petrilli C.M. [39]	Factors associated with hospital admission and critical illness among 5279 people with Coronavirus disease 2019 in new York City: prospective cohort study	The BMJ	1068	[39]
6^th	Lodigiani C. [40]	Venous and arterial thromboembolic complications in COVID-19 patients admitted to an academic hospital in Milan, Italy.	Thrombosis Research	1001	[40]
7^th	Kong M. [41]	Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in U.S. children and adolescents	New England Journal of Medicine	935	[41]
8^th	Alhazzani W. (2020)	Surviving Sepsis Campaign: guidelines on the management of critically ill adults with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)	Intensive Care Medicine	918
9^th	Llitjos J.-F. (2020)	High incidence of venous thromboembolic events in anticoagulated severe COVID-19 patients	Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis	601
10^th	Liang W. (2020)	Development and validation of a clinical risk score to predict the occurrence of critical illness in hospitalized patients with COVID-19	JAMA Internal Medicine	537
11^th	Cook T.M. (2020)	Consensus guidelines for managing the airway in patients with COVID-19: guidelines from the difficult airway society, the Association of Anaesthetists the Intensive Care Society, the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and the Royal College of Anaesthetists	Anaesthesia	454
12^th	Pereira M.R. (2020)	COVID-19 in solid organ transplant recipients: initial report from the US epicenter	American Journal of Transplantation	419
13^th	Cai Q. (2020)	COVID-19: abnormal liver function tests	Journal of Hepatology	390
14^th	White D.B. (2020)	A framework for rationing ventilators and critical care beds during the COVID-19 pandemic	JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association	380
15^th	Spiezia L. (2020)	COVID-19-related severe hypercoagulability in patients admitted to intensive care unit for acute respiratory failure	Thrombosis and Haemostasis	365
16^th	Lippi G. (2020)	Cardiac troponin I in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): evidence from a meta-analysis	Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases	365
17^th	Dowd J.B. (2020)	Demographic science aids in understanding the spread and fatality rates of COVID-19	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	362
18^th	Murthy S. (2020)	Care for Critically ill Patients with COVID-19.	JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association	361
19^th	Spyropoulos A.C. (2020)	Scientific and standardization committee communication: clinical guidance on the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of venous thromboembolism in hospitalized patients with COVID-19	Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis	334
20^th	Brenner E.J. (2020)	Corticosteroids, but not TNF antagonists, are associated with adverse COVID-19 outcomes in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases: results from an international registry	Gastroenterology	330