Kumar Arvind, Arora Rajesh, Sinha Siddhartha, Haidery Tariq Hasan, Jameel Javed, Khan Rizwan, Qureshi Owais Ahmed, Kumar Sandeep
Department of Orthopaedics (JPNATC), All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Department of Orthopaedics, University College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Indian J Orthop. 2023 Jun 20;57(8):1226-1238. doi: 10.1007/s43465-023-00932-4. eCollection 2023 Aug.
The orthopaedic surgeons, especially the young budding surgeons should have a well-balanced knowledge of the past evidence as well the current evidence in the literature for the appropriate as well as optimum management of tibial plateau fractures. Bibliometric analysis of the top-cited papers on tibial plateau fracture management can help know their concurrent interests, deficiencies and conflicting issues regarding their management. This study aimed to identify the 50 most cited research articles in tibial plateau research and analyse their characteristics.
We searched the Thompson Reuters Web of Science database for articles relevant to tibial plateau fracture and prepared a list of top 50 cited articles that included original articles and review articles concerning tibial plateau fractures. The included articles were analysed for contributing journals, corresponding author's country, publication year, cumulative citations, annual citations, citation trends over time, level of evidence and a qualitative review.
The search strategy resulted in 2263 articles. The top 50 cited articles were published from 1974 to 2014 and belonged to 12 journal sources. There were 47 original articles and 3 review articles. The average citations per article were 126.2, and the annual citations per article were 6.478 per year. The top-cited articles were relevant to the strategies in the management, classification, fracture reduction, articular restoration, types and number of fixation devices, surgical approaches, associated menisco-ligamentous injuries and applicability of bone grafts/substitutes in tibial plateau fractures.
The current bibliometric analysis summarises the top-cited evidence concerning tibial plateau fractures and can be a potential resource for reviewing and locating the same. The analysis shows that most top-cited evidence belongs to the year 2000 onwards. Also, recent articles have a higher annual citation rate. A limited number of journals and mostly, western countries have contributed to the top-cited evidence. Whilst the top-cited evidence has touched several aspects of tibial plateau fractures, it is in the form of level IV case series. It needs better prospective evidence to establish sound recommendations.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s43465-023-00932-4.
骨科医生，尤其是初出茅庐的年轻医生，应该对胫骨平台骨折的既往证据和当前文献中的证据有全面的了解，以便进行恰当且最佳的治疗。对胫骨平台骨折治疗方面被引用次数最多的论文进行文献计量分析，有助于了解他们在治疗方面的共同兴趣、不足之处以及存在争议的问题。本研究旨在找出胫骨平台研究中被引用次数最多的50篇研究文章，并分析其特点。
我们在汤森路透科学网数据库中搜索与胫骨平台骨折相关的文章，列出被引用次数最多的50篇论文清单，其中包括有关胫骨平台骨折的原创文章和综述文章。对纳入的文章分析其所属期刊、通讯作者所在国家、发表年份、累计被引次数、年度被引次数、随时间的被引趋势、证据水平并进行定性综述。
检索策略共得到2263篇文章。被引用次数最多的50篇文章发表于1974年至2014年，来自12种期刊来源。其中有47篇原创文章和3篇综述文章。每篇文章的平均被引次数为126.2次，每年每篇文章的被引次数为6.478次。被引用次数最多的文章涉及胫骨平台骨折治疗的策略、分类、骨折复位、关节面修复、固定装置的类型和数量、手术入路、相关的半月板韧带损伤以及骨移植/替代物的适用性。
当前文献计量分析总结了胫骨平台骨折方面被引用次数最多的证据，可作为回顾和查找这些证据的潜在资源。分析表明，大多数被引用次数最多的证据属于2000年以后。此外，近期文章的年度被引率更高。被引用次数最多的证据来自数量有限的期刊，且大多来自西方国家。虽然被引用次数最多的证据涉及胫骨平台骨折的多个方面，但都是IV级病例系列形式。需要更好的前瞻性证据来制定合理的建议。
在线版本包含可在10.1007/s43465-023-00932-4获取的补充材料。
