Voleti Pramod B, Tjoumakaris Fotios P, Rotmil Gayle, Freedman Kevin B
Orthopedics. 2015 Apr;38(4):e297-304. doi: 10.3928/01477447-20150402-58.
The number of times an article has been cited in the peer-reviewed literature is indicative of its impact on its respective medical specialty. No study has used citation analysis to determine the most influential studies pertaining to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). The primary aims of this study were to identify the classic works in ACL research using citation analysis and to characterize these articles to determine which types of studies have had the most influence on the field. A systematic query of ISI Web of Science (Thomson Reuters, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was performed for articles pertaining to the ACL, and the 50 most-cited articles were selected for evaluation. The following characteristics were determined for each article: number of citations, citation density, journal, publication year, country of origin, language, article type, article subtype, and level of evidence. The number of citations ranged from 219 to 1073 (mean, 326), and the citation densities ranged from 4.9 to 55.6 citations per year (mean, 18.2). All articles were published in 1 of 11 journals, with the most being published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine (46%) and The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery American (30%). The most common decades of publication were the 1990s (34%), 1980s (28%), and 2000s (26%). The majority (68%) of articles originated from the United States, and all were written in English. By article type, 42% were basic science, and 58% were clinical. Of the clinical articles, 3% were Level I, 17% were Level II, 28% were Level III, and 52% were Level IV. The articles were heterogeneous with regard to article type, article subtype, and level of evidence and tended to have the following characteristics: high-impact journal of publication, recent publication year, US origin, English language, and low level of evidence. These works represent some of the most popular scientific contributions to ACL research. This list may aid residency and fellowship programs in the compilation of articles for trainee reading curriculums.
一篇文章在同行评审文献中的被引用次数表明了它对各自医学专业的影响。尚无研究使用引文分析来确定与前交叉韧带（ACL）相关的最具影响力的研究。本研究的主要目的是通过引文分析确定ACL研究中的经典著作，并对这些文章进行特征描述，以确定哪些类型的研究对该领域影响最大。对ISI科学网（汤森路透，宾夕法尼亚州费城）进行了系统检索，查找与ACL相关的文章，并挑选出被引用次数最多的50篇文章进行评估。为每篇文章确定了以下特征：被引用次数、引用密度、期刊、出版年份、原产国、语言、文章类型、文章子类型和证据水平。被引用次数从219次到1073次不等（平均326次），引用密度从每年4.9次到55.6次不等（平均18.2次）。所有文章均发表于11种期刊中的1种，其中发表于《美国运动医学杂志》的最多（46%），发表于《美国骨与关节外科杂志》的占30%。最常见的发表年代是20世纪90年代（34%）、80年代（28%）和21世纪初（26%）。大多数文章（68%）来自美国，且均为英文撰写。按文章类型划分，42%为基础科学类，58%为临床类。在临床文章中，3%为I级，17%为II级，28%为III级，52%为IV级。这些文章在文章类型、文章子类型和证据水平方面存在异质性，且往往具有以下特点：发表于高影响力期刊、出版年份较近、原产于美国、英文撰写以及证据水平较低。这些著作代表了对ACL研究最受欢迎的一些科学贡献。这份清单可能有助于住院医师和专科医师培训项目编制供学员阅读的课程文章。
