Bibliometric and visual study of narcolepsy from 2000 to 2023

Table 1 The productive 10 authors, institutions and countries

	Findings	Number	Ranking	Citation	H-index
Author	Carhart-Harris R	97	1	9188	45
	Griffiths RR	61	2	8713	39
	Roseman L	44	3	3289	26
	Nutt DJ	39	4	5257	26
	Ollenweider, FX	39	5	3925	29
	Erritzoe D	38	6	3920	20
	Liechti ME	32	7	1404	17
	Johnson M	31	8	6818	30
	Davis A	31	9	1831	20
	Hendricks PS	29	10	1067	13
Institution	Imperial College London	167	1	12490	59
	University of California System	155	2	5910	41
	Johns Hopkins University	145	3	11173	50
	University of London	95	4	5712	33
	Yale University	64	5	1721	22
	University of Zurich	63	6	3402	30
	University System of Ohio	63	7	1750	21
	Harvard University	56	8	2000	17
	King S College London	55	9	3774	23
	University of Toronto	53	10	1150	18
Country	United States	823	1	31979	86
	England	324	2	15473	64
	Canada	187	3	3392	32
	Germany	157	4	5873	43
	Switzerland	153	5	8685	54
	Australia	139	6	2861	29
	Netherlands	98	7	2555	28
	Brazil	83	8	3398	25
	Spain	79	9	3718	28
	Denmark	60	10	2273	23

Table 2 The productive 10 journals based on publications

Journal	Number	Ranking	Citation	H-index
Sleep Medicine	323	1	9586	55
Sleep	318	2	16150	69
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine	149	3	3634	33
Journal of Sleep Research	126	4	4058	34
Journal of Neuroscience	80	5	10902	56
Sleep Medicine Reviews	71	6	5295	43
Plos One	69	7	2572	27
Neurology	61	8	4893	40
Neuroscience Letters	40	9	1329	22
Brain Research	38	10	1654	21

Table 3 The top 20 highest cited references

Journal	Finding	Year	Ranking	Citation	Ref.
Nature	Hypothalamic regulation of sleep and circadian rhythms	2005	1	1752	Saper et al[32]
Nature Medicine	A mutation in a case of early onset narcolepsy and a generalized absence of hypocretin peptides in human narcoleptic brains	2000	2	1566	Peyron et al[29]
Neuron	Reduced number of hypocretin neurons in human narcolepsy	2000	3	1530	Thannickal et al[34]
Lancet	Hypocretin (orexin) deficiency in human narcolepsy	2000	4	1315	Nishino et al[27]
Journal of Comparative Neurology	Differential expression of orexin receptors 1 and 2 in the rat brain	2001	5	1246	Marcus et al[25]
Sleep	Practice parameters for the indications for polysomnography and related procedures: An update for 2005	2005	6	1118	Kushida et al[53]
Neuron	Genetic ablation of orexin neurons in mice results in narcolepsy, hypophagia, and obesity	2001	7	1085	Hara et al[19]
Trends in Neurosciences	The sleep switch: Hypothalamic control of sleep and wakefulness	2001	8	1081	Saper et al[30]
Nature	Neural substrates of awakening probed with optogenetic control of hypocretin neurons	2007	9	913	Adamantidis et al[18]
Neuron	Sleep state switching	2010	10	851	Saper et al[31]
Nature	A putative flip-flop switch for control of REM sleep	2006	11	810	Lu et al[24]
Archives of Neurology	The role of cerebrospinal fluid hypocretin measurement in the diagnosis of narcolepsy and other hypersomnias	2002	12	784	Mignot et al[26]
Sleep	Practice parameters for clinical use of the multiple sleep latency test and the maintenance of wakefulness test. An American academy of sleep medicine report standards of practice committee of the American academy of sleep medicine	2005	13	724	Littner et al[23]
Neuron	Hypothalamic orexin neurons regulate arousal according to energy balance in mice	2003	14	694	Yamanaka et al[37]
Journal of Neuroscience	Discharge of identified orexin/hypocretin neurons across the sleep-waking cycle	2005	15	642	Lee et al[22]
Movement Disorders	The REM sleep behavior disorder screening questionnaire: A new diagnostic instrument	2007	16	634	Stiasny-Kolster et al[33]
Annual Review of Neuroscience	To eat or to sleep? Orexin in the regulation of feeding and wakefulness	2001	17	564	Willie et al[35]
Brain	Rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder: Demographic, clinical and laboratory findings in 93 cases	2000	18	558	Olson et al[28]
Journal of Sleep Research	Sensitivity and specificity of the MSLT, the maintenance of wakefulness test and the Epworth sleepiness scale: Failure of the MSLT as a gold standard	2000	19	556	Johns[20]
Journal of Neuroscience	Dopaminergic role in stimulant-induced wakefulness	2001	20	548	Wisor et al[36]

MSLT: Multiple sleep latency test; REM: Rapid eye movement.