Bibliometric Analysis of Worldwide Publications on Antimalarial Drug Resistance (2006–2015)

Table 8

Top cited articles on AMDR (2006–2015).

Rank	Authors	Title	Source title	Number of citations
1st	Dondorp et al. [41]	“Artemisinin Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum Malaria”	New England Journal of Medicine	1350
2nd	Noedl et al. [42]	“Evidence of Artemisinin-Resistant Malaria in Western Cambodia”	New England Journal of Medicine	688
3rd	Phyo et al. [43]	“Emergence of Artemisinin-Resistant Malaria on the Western Border of Thailand: A Longitudinal Study”	The Lancet	354
4th	Ariey et al. [44]	“A molecular Marker of Artemisinin-Resistant Plasmodium falciparum Malaria”	Nature	319
5th	Tjitra et al. [45]	“Multidrug-Resistant Plasmodium vivax Associated with Severe and Fatal Malaria: A Prospective Study in Papua, Indonesia”	PLoS Medicine	301
6th	Ashley et al. [46]	“Spread of Artemisinin Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum Malaria”	New England Journal of Medicine	263
7th	Price et al. [47]	“New Developments in Plasmodium vivax Malaria: Severe Disease and the Rise of Chloroquine Resistance”	Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases	197
8th	Cheeseman et al. [48]	“A Major Genome Region Underlying Artemisinin Resistance in Malaria”	Science	172
9th	Ter Kuile et al. [49]	“Effect of Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine Resistance on the Efficacy of Intermittent Preventive Therapy for Malaria Control during Pregnancy: A Systematic Review”	Journal of the American Medical Association	170
10th	Price et al. [50]	“Molecular and Pharmacological Determinants of the Therapeutic Response to Artemether-Lumefantrine in Multidrug-Resistant Plasmodium falciparum Malaria”	Clinical Infectious Diseases	161