Mbaidjol Zacharia, Rothenberger Jens, Chetany Rajesh
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, West Sussex RH19 3DZ, UK.
BG Unfallklink an der Universität Tübingen, Klinik für Hand, Plastische, Rekonstruktive und Verbrennungschirurgie, Tübingen, Germany.
Surg Res Pract. 2019 Jan 28;2019:3068028. doi: 10.1155/2019/3068028. eCollection 2019.
Lower extremity reconstruction has always been a challenge. Some of the published articles had a major impact on the field but are often not considered as classics because they have fewer citations. We therefore conducted a scientometric analysis of the most cited articles with a focus solely on the lower limb.
A search was conducted on Medline, the Web of Science database, Google Scholar, and Scopus identifying articles relevant to reconstructive surgery of the lower limb. All journals were included with no time frames. Articles relating solely to orthopedics or vascular reconstruction were excluded. The number of citations obtained were then plotted and compared between the different search engines. The mean citation number was calculated by taking into consideration the total number of years since the article's first year of publication. Articles were then ranked and classified according to their authors, their years of publications, and their countries. They were furthermore categorized and analyzed.
Highly cited articles were easily retrieved with Google Scholar, mostly published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery ( = 37) and were mainly authored by American Medical Centers ( = 22). Fifty-four percent (54%) of these classic articles discussed the design of new flaps or were anatomical studies.
We were not able to find a correlation between the year of citation and the number of citations. The citation pattern of a paper cannot be predicted, but a majority of highly cited article allowed the design of new reconstructive techniques.
下肢重建一直是一项挑战。一些已发表的文章对该领域产生了重大影响，但由于引用次数较少，往往不被视为经典。因此，我们对引用次数最多的文章进行了科学计量分析，重点仅关注下肢。
在医学文献数据库（Medline）、科学网数据库（Web of Science）、谷歌学术（Google Scholar）和Scopus上进行搜索，以识别与下肢重建手术相关的文章。所有期刊均纳入，无时间限制。仅与骨科或血管重建相关的文章被排除。然后绘制不同搜索引擎获得的引用次数并进行比较。通过考虑文章自发表第一年以来的总年数来计算平均引用次数。然后根据文章的作者、发表年份和国家对文章进行排名和分类。此外，对它们进行了分类和分析。
谷歌学术很容易检索到高引用文章，这些文章大多发表在《整形与重建外科》（Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery）杂志上（共37篇），主要由美国医疗中心撰写（共22篇）。这些经典文章中有54%讨论了新皮瓣的设计或解剖学研究。
我们未能发现引用年份与引用次数之间的相关性。一篇论文的引用模式无法预测，但大多数高引用文章促成了新重建技术的设计。
