Pascual-Leone Nicolas, Liu Jennifer W, Beschloss Alexander, Chenna Srish S, Saifi Comron
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, United States.
Houston Methodist Hospital, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, United States.
N Am Spine Soc J. 2022 Apr 21;10:100118. doi: 10.1016/j.xnsj.2022.100118. eCollection 2022 Jun.
Excellent research in all fields, including spine surgery, exists in many different regions and languages. This study seeks to determine the relative number of spine related peer-reviewed publications throughout the world based on language.
Peer-reviewed publications from the eleven most prolific languages in regard to both the number of peer-reviewed spine publications indexed in PubMed and total peer-reviewed publications from 1950-2020 were identified in PubMed.
29,711,547 peer-reviewed publications were analyzed for the languages of interest with 870,404 (3.0%) of those being spine related peer-reviewed publications. Between 1988 and 2019, non-English language peer-reviewed publications decreased annually for both all peer-reviewed publications and spine related peer-reviewed publications by 44% and 36%, respectively. All medical and spine specific peer reviewed publications in English compared to non-English publications have increased by 7.22 and 6.35 times since 1988, respectively. While the ratio of non-English to English spine related publications decreased in all eleven countries, the percentage of the number of spine specific publications written in Chinese (462%), Portuguese (378%), and Spanish (88%) have increased by the listed percentages.
While the proportion of peer-reviewed publications in the field of spine surgery written in English have increased over the past several decades, there are many non-English language peer-reviewed publications each year, particularly in Chinese. Although the rapid increase in the proportion of English spine related publications is beneficial to English speaking physicians and researchers, further research is necessary to understand the impact on non-English speaking physicians and researchers.
包括脊柱外科在内的所有领域，在许多不同地区和语言中都存在优秀的研究。本研究旨在根据语言确定全球脊柱相关同行评审出版物的相对数量。
在PubMed中识别出1950年至2020年期间，就PubMed中索引的同行评审脊柱出版物数量和同行评审出版物总数而言，十一种最多产语言的同行评审出版物。
对29,711,547篇同行评审出版物进行了感兴趣语言的分析，其中870,404篇（3.0%）是脊柱相关同行评审出版物。1988年至2019年期间，所有同行评审出版物和脊柱相关同行评审出版物中，非英语语言的同行评审出版物每年分别减少44%和36%。自1988年以来，与非英语出版物相比，所有医学和脊柱特定的英语同行评审出版物分别增加了7.22倍和6.35倍。虽然所有十一个国家中，非英语与英语脊柱相关出版物的比例都有所下降，但中文（462%）、葡萄牙语（378%）和西班牙语（88%）撰写的脊柱特定出版物数量的百分比分别增加了所列百分比。
虽然过去几十年中脊柱外科领域用英语撰写的同行评审出版物比例有所增加，但每年仍有许多非英语语言的同行评审出版物，尤其是中文的。尽管英语脊柱相关出版物比例的快速增加对说英语的医生和研究人员有益，但有必要进一步研究以了解其对非英语医生和研究人员的影响。
