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Review
. 2021 Aug 31;18(17):9203.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph18179203.

Binge Drinking: The Top 100 Cited Papers

María-Teresa Cortés-Tomás  1 , José-Antonio Giménez-Costa  1 , Beatriz Martín-Del-Río  2 , Consolación Gómez-Íñiguez  3 , Ángel Solanes-Puchol  2
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Binge Drinking: The Top 100 Cited Papers

María-Teresa Cortés-Tomás et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

We conducted a review to analyze the 100 most-cited studies on binge drinking (BD) in the Web of Science (WoS) database to determine their current status and the aspects that require further attention. We carried out a retrospective bibliometric analysis in January 2021. The year of publication, authors, design, subject, journal, institution and lead author's country, as well as the definition of BD, were extracted from the articles. The data on the country, year, thematic category of the journals and their rank were obtained from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Journal Citation Reports 2020. The number of citations was collected from the WoS, and the h index was collected from the Scopus database. The citation density and Bradford's law were calculated. The majority of the articles were empirical quantitative studies with a cross-sectional design published between 1992 and 2013 in 49 journals. There were 306 authors, mostly English-speaking and from the USA. The definitions used to describe BD are not homogeneous. The most-cited topics were the analysis of consequences, determinants and epidemiology. There is a need to unify the definitions of BD and base them on scientific evidence. The multidisciplinary nature of BD is not well reflected in each of the thematic areas discussed in this work.

Keywords: alcohol abuse; bibliometric analysis; binge drinking; drug use and health outcomes; literature review; top 100.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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PRISMA flow diagram.
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Number of articles and citations.
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Temporal evolution of citations according to the topic of the 100 most-cited papers in BD.
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BD definitions in the top 100 papers.
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