Marquez-Lara Alejandro, Stone Austin V, Luo T David, Parker Benjamin R, Sharma Aman, Freehill Michael T
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
JSES Open Access. 2017 Aug 3;1(2):55-62. doi: 10.1016/j.jses.2017.06.007. eCollection 2017 Jun.
The frequency of citations for a journal article is a reflection of its academic impact. The purpose of this study was to identify and characterize the top 50 cited journal articles related to overhead throwing athletes in the published literature.
The Web of Science database was searched on January 18, 2016, using the terms "throwing athlete," "baseball," and "pitcher" to identify the top 50 cited articles related to overhead throwing athletes using the all-database function. The type of study, country of origin, publishing journal, and year published were reviewed for each article.
The top 50 articles identified were cited between 95 and 471 times and were published in 13 journals between 1969 and 2011. Most of the articles were small case series or nonsystematic literature reviews. The shoulder was the most common body region studied in the top 50 articles (33 of 50 [66%]). Among original studies (n = 43), there was a good representation of surgical management of shoulder and elbow pathology in overhead athletes (9 of 43 [20.9%]); however, most of the articles reported on shoulder and elbow kinematics (19 of 43 [44.2%]) and pathoanatomy (15 of 43 [34.9%]).
The greater prevalence of nonsurgical articles may reflect a continued effort to better understand the different pathologies specific to overhead throwing athletes. An understanding of the variable content and quality of frequently cited articles on overhead throwing athletes may serve as a stepping stone for future studies to advance the diagnosis and management of complex elbow and shoulder injuries in these high functional individuals.
期刊文章的被引频次反映了其学术影响力。本研究的目的是在已发表的文献中识别并描述与过头投掷运动员相关的被引频次最高的50篇期刊文章。
于2016年1月18日在科学网数据库中进行检索，使用“投掷运动员”“棒球”和“投手”等术语，通过全数据库功能识别与过头投掷运动员相关的被引频次最高的50篇文章。对每篇文章的研究类型、原产国、发表期刊和发表年份进行了审查。
识别出的50篇文章被引次数在95次至471次之间，于1969年至2011年发表在13种期刊上。大多数文章为小型病例系列或非系统性文献综述。肩部是50篇文章中研究最多的身体部位（50篇中有33篇[66%]）。在原创研究（n = 43）中，过头运动员肩部和肘部病理的外科治疗有较好的体现（43篇中有9篇[20.9%]）；然而，大多数文章报道的是肩部和肘部的运动学（43篇中有19篇[44.2%]）和病理解剖学（43篇中有15篇[34.9%]）。
非手术类文章的较高比例可能反映出人们持续努力以更好地理解过头投掷运动员特有的不同病理情况。了解过头投掷运动员相关的高被引文章的内容和质量差异，可能为未来研究推进这些高功能个体复杂肘部和肩部损伤的诊断和治疗提供铺垫。
