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The Top 100 Cited Articles in Essential Tremor

Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Volume 3 (2013): Issue 0
By: Julián Benito-León and  Elan D. Louis  
Open Access
|Sep 2013

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TABLE 1

The 100 Top-Cited ET Articles

RankArticleNumber of Citations
1Benamer HTS, Patterson J, Grosset DG, et al. Accurate differentiation of parkinsonism and essential tremor using visual assessment of [123I]-FP-CIT SPECT imaging: the [123I]-FP-CIT study group. Mov Disord 2000;15:503–510.293
2Limousin P, Speelman JD, Gielen F, Janssens M. Multicentre European study of thalamic stimulation in parkinsonian and essential tremor. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1999;66:289–296.264
3Louis ED, Ottman R, Allen Hauser W. How common is the most common adult movement disorder? Estimates of the prevalence of essential tremor throughout the world. Mov Disord 1998;13:5–10.203
4Bain PG, Findley LJ, Thompson PD, et al. A study of hereditary essential tremor. Brain 1994;117:805–824.202
5Lou JS, Jankovic J. Essential tremor: clinical correlates in 350 patients. Neurology 1991;41:234–238.164
6Gulcher JR, Jónsson P, Kong A, et al. Mapping of a familial essential tremor gene, FET1, to chromosome 3q13. Nat Gen 1997;17:84–87.154
7Jenkins IH, Bain PG, Colebatch JG, et al. A positron emission tomography study of essential tremor: evidence for overactivity of cerebellar connections. Ann Neurol 1993;34:82–90.153
8Benabid AL, Pollak P, Seigneuret E, Hoffmann D, Gay E, Perret J. Chronic VIM thalamic stimulation in Parkinson‘s disease, essential tremor and extra-pyramidal dyskinesias. Acta Neurochir Suppl (Wien) 1993;58:39–44.136
9Ondo W, Jankovic J, Schwartz K, Almaguer M, Simpson RK. Unilateral thalamic deep brain stimulation for refractory essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease tremor. Neurology 1998;51:1063–1069.133
10Louis ED. Essential tremor. Lancet Neurol 2005;4:100–110.132
11Louis ED, Faust PL, Vonsattel JP, et al. Neuropathological changes in essential tremor: 33 Cases compared with 21 controls. Brain 2007;130:3297–3307.131
12Rajput AH, Offord, KP, Beard CM, Kurland LT. Essential tremor in Rochester, Minnesota: a 45-year study. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1984;47:466–470.130
13Koller WC, Busenbark K, Miner K, et al. The relationship of essential tremor to other movement disorders: report on 678 patients. Ann Neurol 1994;35:717–723.128
14Deuschl G, Wenzelburger R, Löffler K, Raethjen J, Stolze H. Essential tremor and cerebellar dysfunction. Clinical and kinematic analysis of intention tremor. Brain 2000;123:1568–1580.127
15Higgins JJ, Pho LT, Nee LE. A gene (ETM) for essential tremor maps to chromosome 2p22–p25. Mov Disord 1997;12:859–864.126
16Benito-León J, Bermejo-Pareja F, Morales J-M, Vega S, Molina J-A. Prevalence of essential tremor in three elderly populations of central Spain. Mov Disord 2003;18:389–394.118
17Dogu, O, Sevim S, Camdeviren H, et al. Prevalence of essential tremor: door-to-door neurologic exams in Mersin Province, Turkey. Neurology 2003;61:1804–1806112
18Stolze, H, Petersen, G, Raethjen J, Wenzelburger R, Deuschl G. The gait disorder of advanced essential tremor. Brain 2002;124:2278–2286.110
19Gironell A, Kulisevsky J, Barbanoj M, López-Villegas D, Hernández G, Pascual-Sedano B. A randomized placebo-controlled comparative trial of gabapentin and propranolol in essential tremor. Arch Neurol 1999;56:475–480.110
20Elble, RJ. Physiologic and essential tremor. Neurology 1986;36:225–231.109
21Zesiewicz TA, Elble RJ, Louis ED, et al. Practice parameter: therapies for essential tremor: report of the quality standards subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology. Neurology 2005;64:2008–2020.105
22Asenbaum S, Pirker W, Angelberger P, Bencsits G, Pruckmayer M, Brücke T. [123I]β-CIT and SPECT in essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease. J Neural Transm 1998;105:1213–1228.100
23Bucher SF, Seelos KC, Dodel RC, Reiser M, Oertel WH. Activation mapping in essential tremor with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Ann Neurol 1997;41:32–40.100
24Wills AJ, Jenkins IH, Thompson PD, Findley LJ, Brooks DJ. Red nuclear and cerebellar but no olivary activation associated with essential tremor: a positron emission tomographic study. Ann Neurol 1994;36:636–642.100
25Alesch F, Pinter MM, Helscher RJ, Fertl L, Benabid AL, Koos WT. Stimulation of the ventral intermediate thalamic nucleus in tremor dominated Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 1995;136:75–81.99
26Deuschl G, Elble RJ. The pathophysiology of essential tremor. Neurology 2000;54(11 SUPPL. 4):S14–S20.98
27Cohen O, Pullman S, Jurewicz E, Watner D, Louis ED. Rest tremor in patients with essential tremor: prevalence, clinical correlates, and electrophysiologic characteristics. Arch Neurol 2003;60:405–410.97
28Bain P, Brin M, Deuschl G, et al. Criteria for the diagnosis of essential tremor. Neurology 2000;54(11 SUPPL. 4):S797
29Laesson T, Sjogren T. Essential tremor: a clinical and genetic population study. Acta Psychiatr Scand Suppl 1960;36:1–176.96
30Louis ED, Marder K, Cote L, et al. Differences in the prevalence of essential tremor among elderly African Americans, whites, and Hispanics in Northern Manhattan, NY. Arch Neurol 1995;52:1201–1205.95
31Koller WC, Lyons KE, Wilkinson SB, Troster AI, Pahwa R. Long-term safety and efficacy of unilateral deep brain stimulation of the thalamus in essential tremor. Mov Disord 2001;16:464–468.94
32Elble RJ. Diagnostic criteria for essential tremor and differential diagnosis. Neurology 2000;54(11 SUPPL. 4):S2–S6.94
33Rautakorpi I, Takala J, Marttila RJ, Sievers K, Rinne UK. Essential tremor in a Finnish population. Acta Neurologica Scand 1982;66:58–67.91
34Louis ED, Ottman R, Ford B, et al. The Washington Heights-Inwood Genetic Study of Essential tremor: methodologic issues in Essential-tremor research. Neuroepidemiology 1997;16:124–133.88
35Colebatch JG, Findley LJ, Frackowiak RSJ, Marsden CD, Brooks DJ. Preliminary report: activation of the cerebellum in essential tremor. Lancet 1990;336:1028–1030.88
36Hariz MI, Shamsgovara P, Johansson F, Hariz G-M, Fodstad H. Tolerance and tremor rebound following long-term chronic thalamic stimulation for Parkinsonian and essential tremor. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 1999;72:208–218.86
37Singer C, Sanchez-Ramos J, Weiner WJ. Gait abnormality in essential tremor. Mov Disord 1994;9:193–196.86
38Benito-León J, Louis ED. Essential tremor: emerging views of a common disorder. Nat Clin Pract Neurol 2006;2:666–678.85
39Louis ED, Zheng W, Jurewicz EC, et al. Elevation of blood Β-carboline alkaloids in essential tremor. Neurology 2002;59:1940–1944.85
40Louis ED, Ottman R. How familial is familial tremor? The genetic epidemiology of essential tremor. Neurology 1996;46:1200–120585
41Lombardi WJ, Woolston DJ, Roberts JW, Gross RE. Cognitive deficits in patients with essential tremor. Neurology 2001;57:785–790.84
42Louis ED, Shungu DC, Chan S, Mao X, Jurewicz EC, Watner D. Metabolic abnormality in the cerebellum in patients with essential tremor: a proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging study. Neurosci Lett 2002;333:17–20.83
43Louis ED, Barnes L, Albert SM, et al. Correlates of functional disability in essential tremor. Mov Disord 2001;16:914–920.83
44Leehey MA, Munhoz RP, Lang AE, et al. The fragile X premutation presenting as essential tremor. Arch Neurol 2003;60:117–121.82
45Boecker H, Wills AJ, Ceballos-Baumann A, et al. The effect of ethanol on alcohol-responsive essential tremor: a position emission tomography study. Ann Neurol 1996;39:650–658.81
46Benito-León J, Louis ED, Bermejo-Pareja F. Population-based case-control study of cognitive function in essential tremor Neurology 2006;66:69–74.80
47Pahwa R, Lyons K, Hubble JP, et al. Double-blind controlled trial of gabapentin in essential tremor. Mov Disord 1998;13:465–467.80
48Raethjen J, Lindemann M, Schmaljohann H, Wenzelburger R, Pfister G, Deuschl G. Multiple oscillators are causing parkinsonian and essential tremor. Mov Disord 2000;15:84–94.79
49Busenbark KL, Nash J, Nash S, Hubble JP, Koller WC. Is essential tremor benign? Neurology 1991;41:1982–1983.79
50Jankovic J. Essential tremor: a heterogeneous disorder. Mov Disord 2002;17:638–644.78
51Rajput, A, Robinson CA, Rajput AH. Essential tremor course and disability: a clinicopathologic study of 20 cases. Neurology 2004;62:932–936.77
52Louis ED, Ford B, Frucht S, Barnes LF, X-Tang M, Ottman R. Risk of tremor and impairment from tremor in relatives of patients with essential tremor: a community-based family study. Ann Neurol 2001;49:761–769.77
53Hellwig B, Häussler S, Schelter B, et al. Tremor-correlated cortical activity in essential tremor. Lancet 2001;357:519–523.77
54Hallett M, Dubinsky RM. Glucose metabolism in the brain of patients with essential tremor. J Neurol Sci 1993;114:45–48.76
55Benito-León J, Bermejo-Pareja, F, Louis ED. Incidence of essential tremor in three elderly populations of Central Spain. Neurology 2005;64:1721–1725.75
56Connor GS. A double-blind placebo-controlled trial of topiramate treatment for essential tremor. Neurology 2002;59:132–134.75
57Hubble JP, Busenbark KL, Wilkinson S, Penn RD, Lyons K, Koller WC. Deep brain stimulation for essential tremor. Neurology 1996;46:1150–1153.75
58Sydow O, Thobois S, Alesch F, Speelman JD. Multicentre European study of thalamic stimulation in essential tremor: a six year follow up. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:1387–1391.74
59Helmchen C, Hagenow A, Miesner J, et al. Eye movement abnormalities in essential tremor may indicate cerebellar dysfunction. Brain 2003;126:1319–1332.74
60Ondo W, Hunter C, Vuong KD, Schwartz K, Jankovic J. Gabapentin for essential tremor: a multiple-dose, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Mov Disord 2000;15:678–682.73
61Jankovic, J. Essential tremor: clinical characteristics. Neurology 2000;54(11 SUPPL. 4):S21–S25.73
62Dupuis MJM, Delwaide PJ, Boucquey D, Gonsette RE. Homolateral disappearance of essential tremor after cerebellar stroke. Mov Disord 1989;4:183–187.73
63Louis ED, Ford B, Lee H, Andrews H. Does a screening questionnaire for essential tremor agree with the physician‘s examination? Neurology 1998;50:1351–1357.72
64Salemi G, Savettieri G, Rocca WA, et al. Prevalence of essential tremor: a door-to-door survey in Terrasini, Sicily. Neurology 1994;44:61–64.72
65Shahed J, Jankovic J. Exploring the relationship between essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease. Parkinsonism Relat Disord 2007;13:67–76.71
66Louis ED, Vonsattel JPG, Honig LS, Ross GW, Lyons KE, Pahwa R. Neuropathologic findings in essential tremor. Neurology 206;66:1756–1759.71
67Deng H, Le W, Jankovic J. Genetics of essential tremor. Brain 2007;130:1456–1464.70
68Higgins JJ, Loveless JM, Jankovic J, Patel PI. Evidence that a gene for essential tremor maps to chromosome 2p in four families. Mov Disord 1998;13:972–977.70
69Benito-León J, Louis ED, Bermejo-Pareja F. Elderly-onset essential tremor is associated with dementia. Neurology 2006;66:1500–1505.69
70Jeanneteau F, Funalot B, Jankovic J, et al. A functional variant of the dopamine D3 receptor is associated with risk and age-at-onset of essential tremor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006;103:10753–10758.68
71Hubble JP, Busenbark KL, Pahwa R, Lyons K, Koller WC. Clinical expression of essential tremor: effects of gender and age. Mov Disord 1997;12:969–972.68
72Rajput AH, Rozdilsky B, Ang L, Rajput A. Clinicopathologic observations in essential tremor: report of six cases. Neurology 1991;41:1422–1424.68
73Louis ED. Essential tremor. N Engl J Med 2001;345:887–891.67
74Koller WC, Vetere-Overfield B. Acute and chronic effects of propranolol and primidone in essential tremor. Neurology 1989;39:1587–1588.67
75Geraghty JJ, Jankovic J, Zetusky WJ. Association between essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease. Ann Neurol 1985;17:329–333.67
76Hornabrook RW, Nagurney JT. Essential tremor in Papua New Guinea. Brain 1976;99:659–672.67
77Pahwa R, Lyons KL, Wilkinson SB, et al. Bilateral thalamic stimulation for the treatment of essential tremor. Neurology 1999;53:1447–1450.66
78Louis ED, Ford B, Lee H, Andrews H, Cameron G. Diagnostic criteria for essential tremor: a population perspective. Arch Neurol 1998;55:823–828.66
79Kralic JE, Criswell HE, Osterman JL, et al. Genetic essential tremor in γ-aminobutyric acidA receptor α1 subunit knockout mice. J Clin Invest 2005;115:774–779.65
80Tanner CM, Goldman SM, Lyons KE, et al. Essential tremor in twins: an assessment of genetic vs environmental determinants of etiology. Neurology 2001;57:1389–1391.65
81Findley LJ, Koller WC. Essential tremor: a review. Neurology 1987;37:1194–1197.65
82Bermejo-Pareja F, Louis ED, Benito-León J. Risk of incident dementia in essential tremor: a population-based study. Mov Disord 2007;22:1573–1580.64
83Tröster AI, Woods SP, Fields JA, et al. Neuropsychological deficits in essential tremor: an expression of cerebello-thalamo-cortical pathophysiology? Eur J Neurol 2002;9:143–151.64
84Pahwa R, Lyons KE, Wilkinson SB, et al. Comparison of thalamotomy to deep brain stimulation of the thalamus in essential tremor. Mov Disord 2001;16:140–143.64
85Hua SE, Lenz FA, Zirh TA, Reich SG, Dougherty PM. Thalamic neuronal activity correlated with essential tremor. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1998;64:273–276.64
86Louis ED, Honig LS, Vonsattel JPG, Maraganore DM, Borden S, Moskowitz CB. Essential tremor associated with focal nonnigral Lewy bodies: a clinicopathologic study. Arch Neurol 2005;62:1004–1007.63
87Koller WC, Royse VL. Efficacy of primidone in essential tremor. Neurology 1986;36:121–124.62
88Louis ED, Ferreira JJ. How common is the most common adult movement disorder? Update on the worldwide prevalence of essential tremor. Mov Disord 2010;25:534–541.61
89Louis ED, Vonsattel JPG. The emerging neuropathology of essential tremor. Mov Disord 2008;23:174–182.61
90Findley LJ, Cleeves L, Calzetti S. Primidone in essential tremor of the hands and head: a double blind controlled clinical study. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1985;48:911–915.61
91Axelrad JE, Louis ED, Honig LS, et al. Reduced Purkinje cell number in essential tremor: a postmortem study. Arch Neurol 2008;65:101–107.59
92Ondo WG, Jankovic J, Connor GS, et al. Topiramate in essential tremor: a double-blind, placebo-controlled trialNeurology 2006;66:672–677.59
93Gasparini M, Bonifati V, Fabrizio E, et al. Frontal lobe dysfunction in essential tremor: a preliminary study. J Neurol 2001;248:399–402.59
94Benito-León J, Louis ED, Bermejo-Pareja F. Risk of incident Parkinson’s disease and parkinsonism in essential tremor: a population based study. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2009;80:423–425.58
95Findley LJ. Epidemiology and genetics of essential tremor. Neurology 2000;54:S8–S13.58
96Halliday DM, Conway BA, Farmer SF, Shahani U, Russell AJC, Rosenberg JR. Coherence between low-frequency activation of the motor cortex and tremor in patients with essential tremor. Lancet 2000;355:1149–1153.58
97Shill HA, Adler CH, Sabbagh MN, et al. Pathologic findings in prospectively ascertained essential tremor subjects. Neurology 2008;70:1452–1455.57
98Rajput AH, Rozdilsky B, Ang L, Rajput A. Significance of Parkinsonian manifestations in essential tremor. Can J Neurol Sci 1993;20:114–117.57
99Goldman MS, Ahlskog JE, Kelly PJ. The symptomatic and functional outcome of stereotactic thalamotomy for medically intractable essential tremor. J Neurosurg 1992;76:924–928.57
100Stefansson H, Steinberg S, Petursson H, et al. Variant in the sequence of the LINGO1 gene confers risk of essential tremor. Nat Genet 2009;41:277–279.56
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FIGURE 1

Publication Years for the 100 Top-Cited ET Articles.

TABLE 2

Journals that Published the 100 Top-Cited ET Articles

Impact Factor
RankJournal20115-Year Impact FactorNumber of ArticlesCited Half-Life
1Neurology8.3127.634318.7
2Movement Disorders4.5054.449185.3
3Annals of Neurology11.08910.64479.0
4Brain9.45710.54577.8
5Archives of Neurology7.5846.92878.9
6Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry4.7644.9536>10.0
7Lancet38.27833.79738.9
8Nature Genetics35.53233.09626.8
9Acta Neurochirurgica1.5201.83929.8
10New England Journal of Medicine53.29850.07517.8
11Lancet Neurology23.46220.59813.8
12Journal of Clinical Investigation13.06915.43019.4
13Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America9.68110.47217.8
14Nature Clinical Practice Neurology7.6366.71214.4
15Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica4.2204.2991>10.0
16Parkinsonism & Related Disorders3.7953.17313.9
17European Journal of Neurology3.6923.23914.5
18Journal of Neurology3.4733.20316.5
19Journal of Neurosurgery2.9653.0881>10.0
20Journal of Neural Transmission2.7302.66216.1
21Acta Neurologica Scandinavica2.4692.34719.8
22Journal Neurological Sciences2.3532.44118.7
23Neuroepidemiology2.3052.81716.3
24Neuroscience Letters2.1052.16818.3
25Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery1.8491.91319.4
26Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences0.9681.1771112
TABLE 3

Authors with Two or More Top-Cited ET Articles

RankAuthorNumber of Citation ClassicsNumber of Articlesh-index
As First AuthorAs Co-Author
1Louis ED27171048
2Koller WC1541158
3Jankovic J1221083
4Pahwa R113846
5Lyons K1101121
6Findley LJ93636
7Rajput AH85440
8Rajput A82637
9Benito-León J76129
10Elble R62419
11Deuschl G62456
12Bermejo-Pareja F61520
13Busenbark K51416
14Ford B50535
15Vonsattel JP50534
16Ondo W43120
17Tröster AI41337
18Honig LS40428
19Wilkinson S40417
20Wenzelburger R40416
21Thompson PD40454
22Ottman R40441
23Hubble JP40427
24Brooks DJ40487
25Bain PG32125
26Raethjen J31217
27Speelman JD30332
28Ross GW30339
29Pullman S30312
30Marsden CD303126
31Jurewicz EC30310
32Hariz MI22031
33Connor GS2113
34Colebatch JG21138
35Benabid AL21160
36Stolze H21119
37Deng H21122
38Wills AJ21115
39Alesch F21118
40Hauser W20223
41Weiner WJ20245
42Tang MX20250
43Stefansson K20224
44Schwartz K20219
45Rozdilsky B20229
46Robinson CA2028
47Overman J20210
48Oertel WH20255
49Nash J20214
50Moskowitz CB20214
51Lee H20231
52Kong A2026
53Jenkins IH20216
54Jakobsson F2026
55Higgins JJ20218
56Benedickz J2021
57Frackowiak RSJ20276
58Faust PL20212
59Cote L20233
60Borden S2024
61Barnes LF2027
62Andrews H20226
TABLE 4

Country of Origin of the 100 Top-Cited ET Articles

RankCountry of OriginNumber of Articles
1USA54
2United Kingdom11
3Spain8
4Germany7
5Canada4
6France3
7Sweden3
8Austria2
9Italy2
10Iceland2
11Finland1
12Belgium1
13Turkey1
14Papua New Guinea1
TABLE 5

Institution of Origin of Authors with Two or More Top-Cited ET Articles

RankCountry of OriginNumber of Articles
1Columbia University, New York, New York, USA19
2University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA18
3Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA9
4Móstoles University Hospital, Móstoles, Madrid, Spain6
5University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada5
6Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom4
7Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany4
8Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, United Kingdom3
9Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom2
10deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland2
11Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, USA2
12University of Vienna, Austria2
13National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA2
TABLE 6

Study Design of the Clinical Studies

Study DesignNumber of Articles
Experimental study
Randomized, controlled trial, open-label trial6
Observational study
Cohort study4
Case-control study24
Descriptive study
Cross-sectional study10
Case series34
Case report2
Methods paper1
Review articles or expert opinion18
Animal research1
TABLE 7

Level of Evidence of the Clinical Studies

Levels of EvidenceNumber of Articles
Level A: Well-conducted RCT with 100 patients or more (including multi-center and meta-analyses); well-conducted RCT with fewer than 100 patients (one or more institutions and meta-analysis; well-conducted study)1
Level B: Well-conducted case-control study, poorly controlled or uncontrolled (including RCT with one or more major or three or more minor methodological flaws), observations studies with high potential for bias (case series with comparison to historical controls), case series or case reports, conflicting evidence with more support79
Level C: Expert opinion18
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Keywords:
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