Urrutia Julio, Zamora Tomas, Prada Carlos
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Marcoleta 352, Santiago, Chile,
Int Orthop. 2014 Aug;38(8):1723-9. doi: 10.1007/s00264-013-2197-6. Epub 2013 Nov 26.
The number of citations of an article is a marker of its academic influence. Several medical specialties, including orthopaedics, have ranked the articles with more citations. We identified the 50 most cited orthopaedic articles from Latin-America and analyzed the characteristics that made them citable.
Science Citation Index Expanded was searched for citations of articles originated in Latin-America, published in any of the 63 journals in the category "Orthopaedics" from 1988 to 2013. We created a list ranking the 50 most commonly cited articles and determined the citation density (Citations/years since publication). Information noted for each article included authors, year of publication, country of origin, source journal, article type, and field of research.
Latin-American countries were the origin of 1% of orthopaedic articles. The top 50 most cited articles had between 29 and 150 citations (mean, 44.48); the citation density ranged from 1.43 to 15.5 citations/years (mean, 5.25). The articles were published in 19 of the 63 journals (11 general and eight sub-specialty journals), and all were published in English. Most articles (n = 29) were published in 2000 or later. The majority were clinical articles (n=40), and the most common fields were arthroscopy (n = 15) and hip surgery (n = 13). The top 50 articles originated mainly from Brazil (n = 20) and Argentina (n = 15).
This top 50 list displays articles that have become important references for the orthopaedic scientific community. Researchers may use this work to make their future publications more influential on future investigators.
一篇文章的被引次数是其学术影响力的一个标志。包括骨科在内的几个医学专业都对被引次数较多的文章进行了排名。我们确定了拉丁美洲被引次数最多的50篇骨科文章，并分析了使其具有可被引用性的特征。
在《科学引文索引扩展版》中搜索1988年至2013年发表在“骨科”类别63种期刊中任何一种上的、源自拉丁美洲的文章的被引情况。我们创建了一份列出50篇最常被引用文章的清单，并确定了被引密度（被引次数/自发表以来的年份）。每篇文章记录的信息包括作者、发表年份、原产国、来源期刊、文章类型和研究领域。
拉丁美洲国家的骨科文章占比1%。最常被引用的50篇文章的被引次数在29次至150次之间（平均44.48次）；被引密度为每年1.43次至15.5次（平均5.25次）。这些文章发表在63种期刊中的19种上（11种综合期刊和8种专科期刊），且均以英文发表。大多数文章（n = 29）发表于2000年或之后。大多数是临床文章（n = 40），最常见的领域是关节镜检查（n = 15）和髋关节手术（n = 13）。最常被引用的50篇文章主要来自巴西（n = 20）和阿根廷（n = 15）。
这份50篇文章的清单展示了已成为骨科科学界重要参考文献的文章。研究人员可以利用这项工作使他们未来的出版物对未来的研究者更具影响力。
