Table 1 Highly cited articles on EPSD (1967–2017)
From: Global output of research on epidermal parasitic skin diseases from 1967 to 2017
Rank | Title | Reference | Year | Source title | Number of citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | The treatment of scabies with ivermectin | [42] | 1995 | New England Journal of Medicine | 284 |
2 | Scabies and pediculosis | [6] | 2000 | The Lancet | 279 |
3 | Genome sequences of the human body louse and its primary endosymbiont provide insights into the permanent parasitic lifestyle | [86] | 2010 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 243 |
4 | Scabies | [87] | 2006 | New England Journal of Medicine | 217 |
5 | The body louse as a vector of reemerging human diseases | [88] | 1999 | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 213 |
6 | Scabies: a ubiquitous neglected skin disease | [9] | 2006 | The Lancet Infectious Diseases | 182 |
7 | Scabies | [4] | 2006 | The Lancet | 169 |
8 | Crusted scabies: Clinical and immunological findings in seventy-eight patients and a review of the literature | [89] | 2005 | Journal of Infection | 159 |
9 | First documentation of in vivo and in vitro ivermectin resistance in Sarcoptes scabiei | [90] | 2004 | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 152 |
10 | Permethrin and ivermectin for scabies | [91] | 2010 | New England Journal of Medicine | 149 |