Global research production in neonatal abstinence syndrome: A bibliometric analysis

Table 4 The 20 Most-cited articles in neonatal abstinence syndrome based on the citation count

SCR	Ref.	Title	Year	Source title	Cited by
1st	Patrick et al[1]	Neonatal abstinence syndrome and associated health care expenditures: United States, 2000-2009	2012	JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association	529
2nd	Jones et al[43]	Neonatal abstinence syndrome after methadone or buprenorphine exposure	2010	New England Journal of Medicine	526
3rd	Hudak et al[40]	Neonatal drug withdrawal	2012	Pediatrics	443
4th	Finnegan et al[38]	Neonatal abstinence syndrome: assessment and management	1975	Addictive diseases	435
5th	Sanz et al[49]	Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in pregnant women and neonatal withdrawal syndrome: A database analysis	2005	Lancet	318
6th	Hughes et al[41]	Nicotine withdrawal vs other drug withdrawal syndromes: similarities and dissimilarities	1994	Addiction	253
7th	Patrick et al[9]	Increasing incidence and geographic distribution of neonatal abstinence syndrome: United States 2009 to 2012	2015	Journal of Perinatology	251
8th	Levinson-Castiel et al[45]	Neonatal abstinence syndrome after in utero exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in term infants	2006	Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine	238
9th	Costei et al[37]	Perinatal outcome following third trimester exposure to paroxetine	2002	Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine	233
10th	Kocherlakota[2]	Neonatal abstinence syndrome	2014	Pediatrics	219
11th	Tolia et al[50]	Increasing incidence of the neonatal abstinence syndrome in United States neonatal ICUs	2015	New England Journal of Medicine	213
12th	American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Drugs[36]	Neonatal drug withdrawal	1998	Pediatrics	212
13th	ACOG Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women and American Society of Addiction Medicine[35]	Committee opinion No. 524: Opioid abuse, dependence, and addiction in pregnancy	2012	Obstetrics and Gynecology	208
13th	Jones et al[42]	Buprenorphine vs methadone in the treatment of pregnant opioid-dependent patients: Effects on the neonatal abstinence syndrome	2005	Drug and Alcohol Dependence	208
15th	Wisner et al[51]	Pharmacologic treatment of depression during pregnancy	1999	Journal of the American Medical Association	200
16th	Zajecka et al[52]	Discontinuation symptoms after treatment with serotonin reuptake inhibitors: A literature review	1997	Journal of Clinical Psychiatry	197
17th	Nau et al[46]	Valproic acid and its metabolites: Placental transfer, neonatal pharmacokinetics, transfer via mother's milk and clinical status in neonates of epileptic mothers	1981	Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics	197
18th	Ryan et al[48]	Cocaine abuse in pregnancy: Effects on the fetus and newbornF	1987	Neurotoxicology and Teratology	181
19th	Lejeune et al[44]	Prospective multicenter observational study of 260 infants born to 259 opiate-dependent mothers on methadone or high-dose buprenophine substitution	2006	Drug and Alcohol Dependence	180
20th	Hadeed and Siegel[39]	Maternal cocaine use during pregnancy: Effect on the newborn infant	1989	Pediatrics	177
21st	Nordeng et al[47]	Neonatal withdrawal syndrome after in utero exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors	2001	Acta Paediatrica,	175