Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery (B.K.A., J.W.H., A.A., B.B.C., S.F.S., A.J.J., G.M., and A.S.) and Epidemiology (G.M.), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2020 Oct 21;102(20):e117. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.20.00367.
As the foot and ankle subspecialty continues to grow in orthopaedics, trends in published literature provide valuable insights to help understand and strengthen the field. The current study evaluates the changes in the characteristics of foot and ankle articles in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (American Volume) (JBJS-A) from 2004 to 2018.
Foot and ankle-related articles in JBJS-A from 2004 to 2018 were identified and categorized by type of study, level of evidence, number of authors, academic degree(s) of the first and last authors, male and female authorship, number of citations, number of references, region of publication, and use of patient-reported outcomes (PROs).
A total of 336 foot and ankle articles from 2004 to 2018 were reviewed. The type of study published has changed over time, with more clinical therapeutic evidence and less case reports. The level of evidence grades, as rated by JBJS-A and objective evaluators, have increased over the past 15 years. The total number of authors per article has increased, and female authorship has increased significantly. The number of references per article has increased, and the number of citations per year has decreased. The field of foot and ankle surgery has seen an increase in global publications.
The results of this study suggest that the foot and ankle literature that has been published in JBJS-A has continued to increase in quality and diversity over the past 15 years.
随着足踝外科在骨科领域的不断发展，发表文献的趋势为帮助理解和加强该领域提供了有价值的见解。本研究评估了《骨科与关节外科杂志（美国卷）》（JBJS-A）中 2004 年至 2018 年足踝相关文章特征的变化。
对 JBJS-A 中 2004 年至 2018 年的足踝相关文章进行了研究，按研究类型、证据水平、作者人数、第一作者和最后作者的学历、男女作者、引用次数、参考文献数量、发表地区以及使用患者报告结局（PRO）进行分类。
共回顾了 2004 年至 2018 年间的 336 篇足踝文章。发表的研究类型随时间发生了变化，临床治疗证据越来越多，病例报告越来越少。在过去的 15 年里，JBJS-A 和客观评估者对证据等级的评级有所提高。每篇文章的作者人数有所增加，女性作者的比例显著增加。每篇文章的参考文献数量增加，每年的引用次数减少。足踝外科领域的全球出版物有所增加。
本研究结果表明，在过去 15 年中，JBJS-A 发表的足踝文献在质量和多样性方面不断提高。
