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Clinical features and presentation of posterior scleritis: A report of 31 cases

Publicated to:Ocular Immunology And Inflammation. 22 (3): 203-207 - 2014-01-01 22(3), DOI: 10.3109/09273948.2013.840385

Authors: Gonzalez-Gonzalez L; Molina-Prat N; Doctor P; Tauber J; Sainz De La Maza M; Foster C

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Bay View Clinic - Author
Harvard Medical School - Author
Hospital Clinic Barcelona - Author
Massachusetts Eye Research and Surgery Institution - Author
Tauber Eye Center - Author
The Ocular Immunology and Uveitus Foundation - Author
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Abstract

Purpose: To describe clinical features, ocular complications, and visual outcomes of patients with posterior scleritis. Methods: Clinical characteristics of a subset of 31 patients with posterior scleritis were studied and compared with 469 patients with anterior scleritis. Results: Of 500 patients, 31 (6.2%) had posterior scleritis. Most patients presented with subacute (80.6%), unilateral (61.3%) scleral inflammation. Pain was moderate to severe in 54.8% of patients. Concomitant anterior scleritis was observed during follow-up in 77.4% of patients and in all patients with moderate to severe pain. Patients with posterior scleritis were significantly younger (43.6 vs. 54.4 years, p<0.001) and had significantly higher decrease of vision (29.0 vs. 14.9%, p=0.027) than those with isolated anterior scleritis. Conclusions: Posterior scleritis must be considered in patients with decrease of vision, mild to severe pain, optic disc edema, and/or posterior uveitis. Moderate to severe pain may be associated with poorer visual outcome. © 2014 Informa Healthcare USA, Inc. All rights reserved: reproduction in whole or part not permitted.

Keywords
inflammationocular inflammatory diseasescleraInflammationOcular inflammatory diseaseScleraScleritis

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Ocular Immunology And Inflammation due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2014, it was in position 24/57, thus managing to position itself as a Q2 (Segundo Cuartil), in the category Ophthalmology. Notably, the journal is positioned en el Cuartil Q2 para la agencia Scopus (SJR) en la categoría Ophthalmology.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 1.12. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 10.35 (source consulted: Dimensions May 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-05-12, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 27
  • Scopus: 44
  • Europe PMC: 8
Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-05-12:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 29.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 29 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 4.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).
Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: United States of America.