Wang Wei, Dong Xinxin, Qu Jianwen, Lin Yangyang, Liu Lei
Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery, The Second Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China.
The Seventh Department of Plastic Surgery, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College. Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Ear Nose Throat J. 2024 Jan;103(1):36-40. doi: 10.1177/01455613211037641. Epub 2021 Jul 31.
Microtia is a congenital auricular malformation with a hypoplastic external ear that ranges in severity from a slightly smaller auricle to complete the absence of the auricle. The present study was conducted to identify and analyze the characteristics of microtia-related articles published from 2006 to 2020 by using bibliometric analyses.
Microtia-related studies published from 2006 to 2020 were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection database. Keywords, first author, citations, date of publication, and publication journal were extracted and quantitatively analyzed using Bibliographic Item Co-Occurrence Matrix Builder software and the Bibliometric (https://bibliometric.com/app). VOSviewer was used to visualize research and form a network map on keywords and citations.
A total of 1031 articles from 2006 to 2020 were included. The number of articles showed an overall trend of growth over time. The United States and China are the top 2 countries in terms of the number of microtia-related articles. From the analysis of keyword clustering, keywords could be mainly divided into 4 clusters in the field of microtia research: surgery, tissue engineering, epidemiology, and rehabilitation including hearing-related treatments, evaluation of effects, and quality of life after surgery. The top 10 most frequently cited papers from 2006 to 2020 were also extracted and analyzed.
A bibliometric research of microtia-related articles from 2006 to 2020 was conducted. This study may be helpful to understand the current research status of microtia and find the research trends in this field, thus proposing future directions for microtia research.
小耳畸形是一种先天性耳廓畸形，其外耳发育不全，严重程度从耳廓略小到完全没有耳廓不等。本研究旨在通过文献计量分析来识别和分析2006年至2020年发表的与小耳畸形相关文章的特征。
从科学网核心合集数据库中检索2006年至2020年发表的与小耳畸形相关的研究。使用文献共现矩阵构建器软件和文献计量学（https://bibliometric.com/app）提取关键词、第一作者、被引频次、发表日期和发表期刊，并进行定量分析。使用VOSviewer对研究进行可视化，并形成关于关键词和被引频次的网络图。
共纳入2006年至2020年的1031篇文章。文章数量总体呈随时间增长的趋势。就与小耳畸形相关文章的数量而言，美国和中国位列前两位。通过关键词聚类分析，在小耳畸形研究领域，关键词主要可分为4类：手术、组织工程、流行病学以及康复，包括听力相关治疗、手术效果评估和术后生活质量。还提取并分析了2006年至2020年被引频次最高的前10篇论文。
对2006年至2020年与小耳畸形相关文章进行了文献计量学研究。本研究可能有助于了解小耳畸形的当前研究状况，找到该领域的研究趋势，从而为小耳畸形研究提出未来方向。
