• Ignacio Jusue-Torres, Alicia Hulbert, Arpita A Germanwala, Chirag R Patel, and Anand V Germanwala.
• Department of Neurological Surgery, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, USA. Electronic address: ignacio.jusuetorres@lumc.edu.
• World Neurosurg. 2018 Nov 1; 119: e910-e921.

ObjectiveOur objective was to identify the 100 most-cited research reports on craniopharyngiomas.MethodsThe Thomson Reuters Web of Science service was queried for the years 1900 to 2017 without language restrictions. The articles were sorted in descending order of the number of times they had been cited by other studies, and all titles and abstracts were screened to identify the research areas of the top 100 reports. The number of citations per year was calculated.ResultsWe identified the 100 most-cited articles on craniopharyngioma, which, collectively, had been cited 20,994 times at the time of our report. The top cited report had been cited 718 times, with an average of 144 citations annually since publication. The oldest article had been published in 1969 and the most recent in 2013; the most prolific decade was the 2000s, with 38 of the included articles published during that period. Thirty-two unique journals contributed to the 100 articles, with the Journal of Neurosurgery contributing most of the articles (n = 31). The most common country of article origin was the United States (n = 49), followed by United Kingdom (n = 12), Germany (n = 10), and Italy (n = 6).ConclusionsThe present study identified the 100 most-cited research articles in craniopharyngioma. These results highlight the multidisciplinary and multimodal nature of craniopharyngioma management. Recognition of important historical contributions to this field could guide future investigations.Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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