Zeng Han, Jin Xiaolei, Lai Chenzhi
16th Department, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Ann Transl Med. 2022 May;10(10):535. doi: 10.21037/atm-22-137.
Plastic surgery has evolved rapidly in recent years. We performed a bibliometric analysis of plastic surgery publications from 2010 to 2020 to evaluate global developments in plastic surgery and the Chinese contribution to this field.
The 2020 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) was used to identify all plastic surgery journals; those that were available on the Web of Science database were retrieved and analyzed according to their number of published articles, citation rates, impact factors (IFs), research funding, and article references. We also determined the most popular journals for research from the 8 top-ranking countries in terms of contributed articles, including China.
From 2010 to 2020, 55,554 articles were published in the 35 selected plastic surgery journals. China, which contributed 9.48% of these articles, was the country with the second-highest number of articles published, a number which has been increasing annually. The average IF of Chinese articles was 1.74, with an average citation count of 6.68. These figures were significantly lower than those for articles from developed countries. China contributed 1,641 articles to the 10 highest impact plastic surgery journals. The was the most popular in terms of contributions by China. China had the highest rate of articles supported by funding (45.30%). The top 12 research-topic clusters were obtained by analyzing the references in the articles. Emerging research-topic trends worldwide and in China included fat grafting and blindness after filler injection.
From 2010 to 2020, research into plastic surgery increased continuously, both worldwide and in China. However, the quality of the Chinese articles was lower than that of other top-ranked countries. Researchers who have elected to conduct research might consider emerging trends when designing future studies.
近年来整形外科学发展迅速。我们对2010年至2020年整形外科学出版物进行了文献计量分析，以评估整形外科学的全球发展情况以及中国在该领域的贡献。
使用2020年期刊引证报告（JCR）来识别所有整形外科学期刊；检索出那些可在科学网数据库中获取的期刊，并根据其发表文章数量、引用率、影响因子（IF）、研究资金和文章参考文献进行分析。我们还根据文章贡献量确定了包括中国在内的8个排名靠前国家中最受欢迎的研究期刊。
2010年至2020年期间，在35种选定的整形外科学期刊上发表了55554篇文章。中国发表的文章占这些文章的9.48%，是发表文章数量第二多的国家，且该数量一直在逐年增加。中国文章的平均影响因子为1.74，平均被引次数为6.68。这些数字显著低于发达国家文章的相应数字。中国向10种影响最大的整形外科学期刊贡献了1641篇文章。就中国的贡献而言，《 》是最受欢迎的。中国获得资金支持的文章比例最高（45.30%）。通过分析文章中的参考文献获得了前12个研究主题聚类。全球和中国新兴的研究主题趋势包括脂肪移植和填充剂注射后失明。
2010年至2020年期间，全球和中国对整形外科学的研究持续增加。然而，中国文章的质量低于其他排名靠前的国家。选择进行研究的人员在设计未来研究时可能会考虑新兴趋势。
