Mackenzie Ethan L, Larson Jeffrey D, Poore Samuel O
Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA.
Arch Plast Surg. 2021 Nov;48(6):651-659. doi: 10.5999/aps.2021.00745. Epub 2021 Nov 15.
Many surgical specialties have had pioneering influences from plastic surgeons. However, many of these areas of practice have evolved to include surgeons from diverse training backgrounds. This raises the question as to whether the prominence of other specialties in clinical practice translates to greater research productivity in these areas. The objective of this paper is to investigate the publication volumes of plastic surgeons in selected areas of practice compared to surgeons from other disciplines.
PubMed was used to examine publication trends in areas associated with plastic surgery. Searches for the following topics were performed: head and neck reconstruction, hand surgery, breast reconstruction, ventral hernia repair, abdominal component separation, brachial plexus injury, craniofacial surgery, and aesthetic surgery. Affiliation tags were used to examine contributions from nine specialties. Web of Science was used to identify the top cited articles for the last 10 years in each area.
Articles by non-plastic surgeons comprise the majority of the literature for all areas of practice studied except for breast reconstruction and aesthetic surgery. Despite this, plastic surgeons contributed the greatest number of top cited articles over the last 10 years for five of the areas of practice.
While plastic surgeons do not contribute the greatest proportion of articles published each year in several of the selected areas of practice, they do publish a larger number of articles that are the most cited. Plastic surgeons remain the dominant academic force in terms of volume and citations for both breast and aesthetic surgery.
许多外科专科都受到了整形外科医生的开创性影响。然而，这些实践领域中的许多已经发展到包括来自不同培训背景的外科医生。这就提出了一个问题，即在临床实践中其他专科的突出地位是否转化为这些领域更高的研究生产力。本文的目的是比较整形外科医生与其他学科医生在选定实践领域的发表量。
使用PubMed来研究与整形手术相关领域的发表趋势。对以下主题进行了搜索：头颈重建、手外科、乳房重建、腹疝修补、腹部组织分离、臂丛神经损伤、颅面外科和美容外科。使用机构标签来研究九个专科的贡献。使用科学网来确定每个领域过去10年中被引用次数最多的文章。
除乳房重建和美容外科外，在所研究的所有实践领域中，非整形外科医生撰写的文章占文献的大多数。尽管如此，在过去10年中，整形外科医生在所研究的五个实践领域中贡献了被引用次数最多的文章。
虽然在几个选定的实践领域中，整形外科医生每年发表的文章比例不是最高，但他们发表的被引用次数最多的文章数量更多。在乳房和美容外科领域，就发表量和引用次数而言，整形外科医生仍然是占主导地位的学术力量。
