Northern Oesophago-Gastric Unit, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, UK.
UCL Medical School, University College London, 74 Huntley St, Bloomsbury, London, WC1E 6DE, UK.
World J Surg. 2022 Jun;46(6):1314-1324. doi: 10.1007/s00268-022-06492-2. Epub 2022 Mar 8.
Bibliometric analyses are a method of evaluating the quality of research output in a certain domain. Robotic surgery has made vast leaps during the past 20 years and this paper aimed to assess some of the main areas of research using this method.
A search was undertaken for documents published between 2001 and 2021 from the World of Science database, using the keywords 'robotic surgery', 'robotic assisted surgery' and 'robotic-assisted surgery. Results were compared using numerous bibliometric methodologies, and stratified by source-specific metrics, author-specific metrics and country-specific metrics.
The search yielded 3839 documents, from 879 different sources. Only 2% of sources were found to be within Bradford's Zone 1 of research and the most relevant sources were from the field of urology. The Journal of Urology and Surgical Endoscopy and other Techniques ranked highly among metrics such as H, G, M index and total citations. The top-rated authors had a H index of 15 in the field of robotic surgery and the total citations reached a peak at 1342. The USA, Japan and Italy were the most productive nations and increased collaborative research is leading to a greater number of multiple-centre publications.
Research into robotic surgery is still in its infancy with further reviews of the literature and greater output through large randomised controlled trials in multiple centres through collaborative research needed.
文献计量分析是评估特定领域研究产出质量的一种方法。机器人手术在过去的 20 年中取得了巨大的飞跃，本文旨在使用这种方法评估该领域的一些主要研究领域。
在 World of Science 数据库中，使用“机器人手术”、“机器人辅助手术”和“机器人辅助手术”等关键词，对 2001 年至 2021 年期间发表的文献进行了检索。使用多种文献计量方法对结果进行了比较，并按来源特定指标、作者特定指标和国家特定指标进行了分层。
检索共得到 3839 篇文献，来自 879 个不同的来源。只有 2%的来源被认为属于布拉德福研究的第 1 区，最相关的来源来自泌尿科。《泌尿外科杂志》和《外科内镜和其他技术》等期刊在 H、G、M 指数和总引文等指标中排名较高。机器人手术领域排名最高的作者的 H 指数为 15，总引文数达到 1342 次的峰值。美国、日本和意大利是最具生产力的国家，合作研究的增加导致了更多的多中心出版物。
机器人手术的研究仍处于起步阶段，需要对文献进行进一步审查，并通过多中心的合作研究，在更大规模的随机对照试验中增加产出。
