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Objective: It was aimed to contributing to contributing to the literature by making a bibliometric analysis of original scientific research on meningiomas. Methods: We reviewed the literature using Thomson-Reuters Web of Science-Science Citation Index Expanded database. The 50 most cited articles containing the keyword meningioma were identified. The number of citations, the country and institute of submission, the name of the publishing journal, the year of publication, and the content of the articles were noted. The top-publishing journals were searched using the multidisciplinary database Scopus, through the free-access portal SCImago Country & Journal Rank (SJR). The documents they published, the citations they received, and the citation/document ratios for the last two years were collected. Results: When the 50 most cited articles were examined, it was seen that they recorded a total of 17,432 and an average of 348.6 citations. While the most cited article received 1237 citations, the least cited one was cited 196 times. The most common field of study in these articles (22%) was a cytogenetic study. Other article types and topics were radiosurgery, classification score system, progression, epidemiology-etiology, review, surgical outcomes, and radiology. More than half (54%) of the articles consisted of the studies conducted in the US. Germany followed this country with 14%. These studies were conducted at 36 different institutes. The institute that conducted the highest number of studies is the Mayo Clinic. These articles have been published in 25 different journals. Eight journals published at least 2 articles. The Journal of Neurosurgery, which published 20% of the articles, outnumbered other journals. It is followed by the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics and the Journal of Neurosurgery with five articles each. We identified 8 journals which published 2 or more of the 50 most cited articles on meningioma. Examining these journals using the data obtained from SJR, with Scopus data, we have seen that the average number of citations per document (cites/doc.) was 4.14, the average total documents were 949.7 in 2020, and the average total number of citations for those documents was 18307.1. Conclusion: The findings of this study show that an article about meningioma is more likely to be cited highly if it was published in a subjectspecific journal of an English-speaking institution in the US.

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