Panagopoulos Andreas, Giannatos Vasileios, Antzoulas Panagiotis, Lakoumentas John, Raoulis Vasileios, Hantes Michael
Department of Sports Medicine, University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Department of Medical Physics, University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Orthop J Sports Med. 2024 Jan 31;12(1):23259671231223525. doi: 10.1177/23259671231223525. eCollection 2024 Jan.
The medial patellofemoral ligament (MPFL) has been investigated widely in the past 30 years, resulting in many research achievements in this field.
To perform a comprehensive bibliometric analysis to evaluate the 100 top-cited articles on the MPFL.
Cross-sectional study.
We searched the Scopus database in December 2022 using the terms "medial patellofemoral ligament" OR "MPFL." The search was confined to English-language articles, including technical notes, systematic reviews on clinical outcomes and/or complications, clinical studies, studies regarding complications, and basic science articles (either cadaveric or biomechanical); we excluded letters, case reports, personal opinions, guidelines, editorials, and narrative or other types of reviews. Analysis of the 100 top-cited articles was performed according to total number of citations, average citations per year (ACY), study type, country of origin, journal of publication, affiliated institution, and most published authors.
The total number of citations was 16,358 (range of citations per article, 72-692). The majority of articles were published as clinical studies (54%), with cadaveric studies being the second most common (21%). Most studies originated in the United States (32%), with Japan (15%) and Germany (13%) following. The published the majority of the 100 top-cited articles (37/100; 6304 citations) as well as the 10 top-cited articles according to ACY (7/10; mean, 285.14 citations). The most prolific authors were Nomura (8 articles); Burks (6 articles); and Inoue, Sillanpää, and Dreyhaupt (5 articles each).
By analyzing the characteristics of the 100 top-cited articles, this study demonstrated that the MPFL is a growing and popular area of research, with the focus varying through timeline trends. Questions regarding MPFL anatomy, isometry, and biomechanics might have been answered adequately, but research regarding optimal fixation technique under various circumstances is still ongoing.
在过去30年里，髌股内侧韧带（MPFL）得到了广泛研究，该领域取得了许多研究成果。
进行全面的文献计量分析，以评估关于MPFL的100篇被引频次最高的文章。
横断面研究。
2022年12月，我们在Scopus数据库中使用检索词“髌股内侧韧带”或“MPFL”进行检索。检索仅限于英文文章，包括技术说明、关于临床结局和/或并发症的系统评价、临床研究、关于并发症的研究以及基础科学文章（尸体或生物力学方面）；我们排除了信函、病例报告、个人观点、指南、社论以及叙述性或其他类型的综述。根据总被引频次、每年平均被引频次（ACY）、研究类型、原产国、发表期刊、附属机构以及发表文章最多的作者，对100篇被引频次最高的文章进行分析。
总被引频次为16358次（每篇文章的被引频次范围为72 - 692次）。大多数文章以临床研究形式发表（54%），尸体研究是第二常见的类型（21%）。大多数研究起源于美国（32%），其次是日本（15%）和德国（13%）。[某期刊名]发表了100篇被引频次最高的文章中的大多数（37/100；6304次被引）以及根据ACY排名前10的被引文章中的7篇（7/10；平均285.14次被引）。发文最多的作者是野村（8篇文章）；伯克斯（6篇文章）；以及井上、西兰佩和德雷豪普特（各5篇文章）。
通过分析100篇被引频次最高的文章的特征，本研究表明MPFL是一个不断发展且热门的研究领域，其重点随时间趋势而变化。关于MPFL解剖学、等长性和生物力学的问题可能已得到充分解答，但关于各种情况下最佳固定技术的研究仍在进行中。
