Brain Metastases Research 1990–2010: Pattern of Citation and Systematic Review of Highly Cited Articles

Table 2

Articles with most citations per year.

Authors and year of publication	Short title	Citations per year	Absolute citation count
Patchell et al. 1990 [10]	Randomized trial of surgery in the treatment of single metastases	85	1013
Andrews et al. 2004 [12]	Whole brain radiation therapy with or without stereotactic radiosurgery boost (RTOG 9508 randomised trial)	64	509
Aoyama et al. 2006 [20]	Randomized trial of stereotactic radiosurgery plus whole-brain radiation therapy versus stereotactic radiosurgery alone	48	282
Gaspar et al. 1997 [11]	RTOG RPA	47	700
Bos et al. 2009 [21]	Genes that mediate breast cancer metastasis to the brain	42	123
Patchell et al. 1998 [13]	Randomized trial of postoperative radiotherapy in the treatment of single metastases	35	487
Kondziolka et al. 1999 [15]	Stereotactic radiosurgery plus whole brain radiotherapy versus radiotherapy alone for patients with multiple brain metastases	31	396
Bendell et al. 2003 [22]	Central nervous system metastases in women who receive trastuzumab for metastatic breast carcinoma	31	276
Lin et al. 2009 [23]	Multicenter phase II study of lapatinib in patients with brain metastases from HER2-positive breast cancer	28	83
Chang et al. 2009 [24]	Neurocognition in patients with brain metastases treated with radiosurgery or radiosurgery plus whole-brain irradiation: a randomised trial	28	82
Lin et al. 2008 [25]	Phase II trial of lapatinib for brain metastases in patients with EGFR 2-positive breast cancer	28	108