Analysis of articles on hepatitis C by scientific mapping: 1989-2022

Table 1 Source local impact

Journal	H-index	G-index	TC	NP	TC/NP	PY_start
Journal of Virology	159	233	100986	1155	87.4	1991
Clinical Infectious Diseases	80	121	21782	441	49.4	1992
Journal of Infectious Diseases	80	122	23751	465	51.1	1990
Journal of General Virology	76	130	22469	423	53.1	1990
Journal of viral hepatitis	72	101	30726	1305	23.5	1995
Journal of Medical Virology	66	90	23289	895	26.0	1990
Virology	66	107	15059	271	55.6	1992
Journal of Clinical Microbiology	62	94	14249	349	40.8	1991
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	59	91	11924	281	42.4	1996
Transplantation	59	83	9569	221	43.3	1991
Journal of Immunology	53	92	8595	98	87.7	1991
Plos Pathogens	53	89	8234	114	72.2	2007
AIDS	52	85	9838	263	37.4	1995
Antiviral Therapy	35	46	3501	173	20.2	1998
Journal of Clinical Virology	34	49	3665	184	19.9	1999
JAIDS-Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome	33	51	3092	99	31.2	2002
Antiviral Research	32	51	3715	158	23.5	1994
Clinical and Experimental Immunology	32	50	2983	88	33.9	1992
International Virology	32	46	2921	144	20.3	1994
Journal of Virology Methods	30	48	3310	162	20.4	1991

NP: Number of publications; TC: Total citations; PY: Publication year.

Table 2 Most local cited documents

Author	Journal	Year	LC	LC/YYP	GC	GC/YYP	LC/GC ratio
Simmonds P	Journal of General Virology	1993	419	13.967	1248	41.600	33.57
Takamizawa A	Journal of Virology	1991	353	11.031	921	28.781	38.33
Blight KJ	Journal of Virology	2002	346	16.476	950	45.238	36.42
Grarakoul A	Journal of Virology	1993	331	11.033	801	26.700	41.32
Okamoto H	Journal of Experimental Medicine	1992	323	10.419	1262	40.710	25.59
Lechner F	Journal of Experimental Medicine	2000	288	12.522	1066	46.348	27.02
Bartosch B	Journal of Experimental Medicine	2003	264	13.200	888	44.400	29.73
Thimme R	Journal of Experimental Medicine	2001	253	11.500	952	43.273	26.58
Grarakoul A	Journal of Virology	1993	217	7.233	543	18.100	39.96
Stuyver L	Journal of General Virology	1993	215	7.167	695	23.167	30.94
Okamoto H	Virology	1992	205	6.613	551	17.774	37.21
Okamoto H	Journal of General Virology	1991	197	6.156	434	13.563	45.39
Tsukiyamakoha K	Journal of Virology	1992	195	6.290	777	25.065	25.10
Gale MJ	Virology	1997	195	7.500	675	25.962	28.89
Graham CS	Clinical Infectious Diseases	2001	195	8.864	734	33.364	26.57
Egger D	Journal of Virology	2002	193	9.190	644	30.667	29.97
Cooper S	Immunity	1999	190	7.917	675	28.125	28.15
Chan SW	Journal of General Virology	1992	180	5.806	407	13.129	44.23
Dubuisson J	Journal of Virology	1994	179	6.172	350	12.069	51.14
Krieger N	Journal of Virology	2001	179	8.136	431	19.591	41.53

YP: Year of publication; LC: Local citations; YYP: Year 2023-year of publication; GC: Global citations.