DiCenso Stefano, Mistovich R Justin
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Orthop J Sports Med. 2024 Aug 16;12(8):23259671241260049. doi: 10.1177/23259671241260049. eCollection 2024 Aug.
Citation analysis reflects the influence a work has on a field of research and can be used to identify "classic" works and their qualities in medical specialties. By analyzing the characteristics of these works, we intended to determine what qualities make for a highly cited work in pediatric orthopaedic sports medicine.
To identify the top 25 most cited articles in the field of pediatric orthopaedic sports medicine.
Cross-sectional study.
The Science Citation Index Expanded feature within the Web of Science database was searched using a Boolean string, generating 2008 pediatric orthopaedic sports medicine articles arranged by number of citations. The top 25 most cited articles were reviewed for authors, year of publication, source journal, country of origin, region of origin, diagnosis or condition of focus, and level of evidence (LOE).
Most of the articles were published in the 2000s (range, 1992-2016). The mean number of citations was 166 (range, 119-329), and the mean citation density was 13.25 (range, 4.25-29.57). There were 18 of 25 studies performed in the United States. A plurality of the articles were published in the . The LOE ranged from 2 to 4, with the most common being level 2 (11/25). Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury management (14/25) and epidemiological studies on the incidence of various sports injuries (6/25) were the most represented topics of study. Since the 1990s, the mean citation density for articles related to ACL injuries in young athletes and the epidemiology of sports injuries has been increasing.
This evaluation demonstrated that ACL injuries and the epidemiology of sports injuries had the highest citation density of the most influential studies in pediatric orthopaedic sports medicine. We identified attributes such as country of publication, journal of publication, and LOE that make for a highly cited pediatric orthopaedic sports medicine article. Overall, citation density in pediatric sports medicine is increasing. Nonetheless, the most represented LOE in the most cited works is level 2, with no level 1 studies being represented in the top 25. In terms of both topics and LOE, this study allows surgeons to identify deficiencies in the existing literature and meaningfully design future studies to improve on these.
引文分析反映了一部作品对某研究领域的影响，可用于识别医学专业中的“经典”作品及其特质。通过分析这些作品的特征，我们旨在确定哪些特质能使一篇小儿骨科运动医学方面的作品被高度引用。
识别小儿骨科运动医学领域被引用次数最多的25篇文章。
横断面研究。
使用布尔字符串在科学网数据库中的科学引文索引扩展版中进行检索，生成按被引用次数排列的2008篇小儿骨科运动医学文章。对被引用次数最多的25篇文章的作者、发表年份、来源期刊、原产国、原产地区、重点诊断或病症以及证据水平（LOE）进行了综述。
大多数文章发表于21世纪（范围为1992 - 2016年）。平均被引用次数为166次（范围为119 - 329次），平均引文密度为13.25（范围为4.25 - 29.57）。25项研究中有18项在美国进行。大部分文章发表于……证据水平范围为2至4级，最常见的是2级（11/25）。前交叉韧带（ACL）损伤处理（14/25）和各种运动损伤发生率的流行病学研究（6/25）是研究中最具代表性的主题。自20世纪90年代以来，与年轻运动员ACL损伤相关文章以及运动损伤流行病学文章的平均引文密度一直在增加。
该评估表明，ACL损伤和运动损伤流行病学在小儿骨科运动医学最具影响力的研究中具有最高的引文密度。我们确定了诸如发表国家、发表期刊和证据水平等属性，这些属性造就了一篇被高度引用的小儿骨科运动医学文章。总体而言，小儿运动医学中的引文密度在增加。尽管如此，被引用次数最多的作品中最具代表性的证据水平是2级，前25篇中没有1级研究。在主题和证据水平方面，本研究使外科医生能够识别现有文献中的不足，并切实设计未来的研究以改进这些不足。
