Malik Azeem Tariq, Noordin Shahryar
Department of Orthopedics, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH USA.
Section of Orthopedic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Orthop Rev (Pavia). 2018 Mar 29;10(1):7498. doi: 10.4081/or.2018.7498.
Total Ankle Arthroplasty (TAA) is a relatively new and evolving field in Foot and Ankle surgery. We conducted a citation analysis to identify the characteristics of the top 50 most cited articles on total ankle arthroplasty. Using the Web of Science database and the search strategy OR , we identified 2445 articles. After filtering for relevant articles, the top 50 cited articles on total ankle arthroplasty were retrieved for descriptive and statistical analysis. The publication years ranged from 1979 to 2013. USA was the most productive country in terms of research output, followed by the UK. Though citation analysis has its flaws, this is a comprehensive list of the top 50 articles significantly impacting literature on total ankle arthroplasty. Based on our study, we conclude that there is marked deficiency of high level articles with respect to the number of citations and future researches need to cater to this question to produce high quality studies.
全踝关节置换术（TAA）在足踝外科领域是一个相对较新且不断发展的领域。我们进行了一项引文分析，以确定全踝关节置换术领域被引用次数最多的前50篇文章的特征。使用科学网数据库和检索策略“OR”，我们识别出2445篇文章。在筛选出相关文章后，检索出全踝关节置换术领域被引用次数最多的前50篇文章进行描述性和统计分析。这些文章的发表年份从1979年到2013年。就研究产出而言，美国是最具生产力的国家，其次是英国。尽管引文分析有其缺陷，但这是一份对全踝关节置换术文献有重大影响的前50篇文章的全面列表。基于我们的研究，我们得出结论，就被引用次数而言，高水平文章存在明显不足，未来的研究需要解决这个问题以产生高质量的研究。
