Introduction: In this study, made an analysis of the top 100 most-cited articles about respiratory system from Turkey, which was published in Science Citation Index (SCI) and SCI Expanded (SCIE) index.
Materials and methods: In Web of Science (WoS) advanced search of the database of "core collection" [v.5.31]; It was written to "CU=TURKEY AND SU=RESPIRATORY SYSTEM" and reached articles from Turkey published in SCI and SCIE indexes until 13.11.2019. The journal in which it was published, the impact factor of the journals, citation counts and the average of the annual citations of the publication of the first 100 articles were found.
Result: From 1975 to 13 November 2019, the total number of publications in the field of respiratory system by the scientists of our country was 5828. The total number of citations to these articles is 48.708 (with subtracting the self citations it was 46.972). The average of citations per publication in our country is 8.36. The total number of citations for the first 100 articles was 12.374. The most cited article with 309 citations is; "The Arg753Gln Polymorphism of the Human Toll-like Receptor 2 Gene in Tuberculosis Disease" written by Ogus AC, et al. It was published in "European Respiratory Journal". Until 13.11.2019 in WoS database related to respiratory system; It has been published 494.974 articles. Published articles from Turkey is 1.17% of the total articles about respiratory system.
Conclusions: Although there are our studies have been published in journals with high impact factors, our contribution to the literature still seems limited.