Visualizing global progress and challenges in esophagogastric variceal bleeding

Table 1 Lists the top 10 countries/regions, institutions, authors, and journals contributing to esophagogastric variceal bleeding research

Rank	Country/region	Count	Institution	Count	Author	Count	Journal	Count	2023 IF/JCR partition
1	China	1638	Univ Barcelona	43	Bosch Jaime	31	World Journal of Gastroenterology	115	Q1/4.30
2	United States	1391	Capital Med Univ	42	Abraldes Juan g	17	Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology	61	Q2/3.70
3	Japan	782	Mayo Clin, Natl Yang Ming Univ	34	Berzigotti Annalisa	12	European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology	56	Q3/2.30
4	South Korea	644	Univ Milan	33	Garcia-Tsao Guadalupe	11	Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Medicine	46	Q1/6.70, Q2/1.30
5	Australia	540	Shandong Univ	28	Carlos Garcia-Pagan Juan	11	Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology	44	Q2/2.80
6	Italy	369	Hosp Clin Barcelona	27	Tripathi Dhiraj	10	Digestive Diseases and Sciences	43	Q2/2.50
7	United Kingdom	273	Fudan Univ	26	Garcia-Pagan Juan Carlos	7	American Journal of Gastroenterology, Hepatology	40	Q1/8.00, Q1/12.90
8	Belgium	263	Yonsei Univ	24	Stanley Adrian j	5	Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition	37	Q1/2.40
9	Iran	259	Taipei Vet Gen Hosp, Yale Univ	23	Patch David	5	Journal of Hepatology	35	Q1/26.80
10	Germany	221	Chang Gung Univ	22	Hayes Peter c.	5	Endoscopy, BMC Gastroenterology	31	Q1/11.50, Q2/2.50

IF: Impact factor; JCR: Journal citation reports.

Table 2 Ranking of the top 10 most cited references

Rank	Year	Title	Journal	First author	Citations
1	2017	Portal hypertensive bleeding in cirrhosis: Risk stratification, diagnosis, and management: 2016 practice guidance by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases	Hepatology	Garcia-Tsao Guadalupe	1242
2	2006	Diagnosis of cirrhosis by transient elastography (fibroscan): A prospective study	Gut	Foucher J	989
3	2004	Risk factors and clinical presentation of portal vein thrombosis in patients with liver cirrhosis	Journal of Hepatology	Amitrano L	382
4	2015	UK guidelines on the management of variceal haemorrhage in cirrhotic patients	Gut	Tripathi Dhiraj	371
5	2004	Influence of portal hypertension and its early decompression by tips placement on the outcome of variceal bleeding	Hepatology	Monescillo A	341
6	2006	Hepatic vein pressure gradient reduction and prevention of variceal bleeding in cirrhosis: A systematic review	Gastroenterology	D’Amico Gennaro	339
7	2014	Competing risks and prognostic stages of cirrhosis: A 25-year inception cohort study of 494 patients	Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics	D’Amico G	315
8	2005	Systematic review: The model for end-stage liver disease - should it replace Child-Pugh’s classification for assessing prognosis in cirrhosis?	Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics	Cholongitas E	312
9	2015	Causes and consequences of portal vein thrombosis in 1243 patients with cirrhosis: Results of a longitudinal study	Hepatology	Nery Filipe	294
10	2011	Best practice guidance for the diagnosis and management of cystic fibrosis-associated liver disease	Journal of Cystic Fibrosis	Debray Dominique	273

Table 3 Top 10 articles by 180-day usage

Rank	Year	Title	Journal	First author	Usage count
1	2022	Comparison of endoscopic ultrasound-guided coil deployment with and without cyanoacrylate injection for gastric varices	Arab Journal of Gastroenterology	Seven G	11
2	2023	Automated multimodal machine learning for esophageal variceal bleeding prediction based on endoscopy and structured data	Journal of Digital Imaging	Wang Y	9
3	2023	Prevalence, clinical characteristics, and outcomes of spontaneous portosystemic shunt in patients with hepatitis b-related cirrhosis: A multicenter study from china	Digestive and Liver Disease	Ke Q	8
4	2022	Optimal treatment for patients with cavernous transformation of the portal vein	Frontiers in Medicine	Wei B	7
5	2015	Intraoperative salvage endoscopy performed during orthotopic liver transplantation due to esophageal bleeding	Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques	Kobryn K	7
6	2023	AASLD practice guidance on risk stratification and management of portal hypertension and varices in cirrhosis	Hepatology	Kaplan DE	6
7	2023	Guidelines for the management of esophagogastric variceal bleeding in cirrhotic portal hypertension	Journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology	Xu XY	6
8	2023	An imaging-based machine learning model outperforms clinical risk scores for prognosis of cirrhotic variceal bleeding	European Radiology	Gao Y	6
9	2023	Diagnosis and management of esophagogastric varices	Diagnostics	Pallio S	6
10	2022	An interpretable artificial intelligence system for detecting risk factors of gastroesophageal variceal bleeding	NPJ Digital Medicine	Wang J	5

AASLD: American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.