Wong Zhen Yu, Adegboye Oluwatobi, Damavandi Pegah, Faderani Ryan, Kanapathy Muholan, Miranda Ben H, Nikkhah Dariush, Mosahebi Afshin
Morriston Hospital, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom.
St Andrew's Centre for Plastic Surgery & Burns, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, CM1 7ET, United Kingdom.
J Hand Microsurg. 2025 Jan 3;17(2):100214. doi: 10.1016/j.jham.2025.100214. eCollection 2025 Mar.
Hand microsurgery is an important advancement of the speciality that has improved outcomes in hand trauma and hand surgical conditions. This bibliometric analysis aims to identify the 75 most cited hand microsurgery articles and explore their relevance to contemporary practice.
The Web of Science core collection database was used to screen and identify the top 75 most-cited articles relevant to hand microsurgery. VOSviewer 1.6.18 and CiteSpace 6.2.R4 software were used to analyse and visualise occurrences, authorship, countries, institutions, journals, keywords, and Evidence Level (Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine).
The initial search identified 3024 articles. The top 75 most-cited articles were published between 1980 and 2018, with contributions from 291 authors. Professor Fu Chang Wei from Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, was the most prolific author. Articles originated from 14 countries, with the United States leading (29.3 %), followed by Taiwan (14.6 %), Italy (8.0 %), and Germany (8.0 %). The 75 most-cited articles were published in 22 journals, led by , followed by the and . A total of 345 keywords were analysed, with "Hand," "Defects," "Reconstruction," and "Regeneration" being the most frequent. Level of Evidence 4 was most common (40 %), followed by Levels 3 (25 %) and 5 (24 %).
The top 75 most-cited hand microsurgery articles influence current surgical practice and teaching material. Understanding specific surgical techniques in hand microsurgery and examining their outcomes will benefit patients, surgeons, researchers and policymakers alike.
手部显微外科是该专业的一项重要进展，改善了手部创伤和手部外科疾病的治疗效果。本文献计量分析旨在识别被引用次数最多的75篇手部显微外科文章，并探讨它们与当代实践的相关性。
使用科学网核心合集数据库筛选并识别与手部显微外科相关的被引用次数最多的前75篇文章。使用VOSviewer 1.6.18和CiteSpace 6.2.R4软件分析并可视化文章的发表情况、作者、国家、机构、期刊、关键词以及证据级别（牛津循证医学中心）。
初步检索识别出3024篇文章。被引用次数最多的前75篇文章发表于1980年至2018年之间，作者有291位。台湾长庚纪念医院的傅常玮教授是发文量最多的作者。文章来自14个国家，美国领先（29.3%），其次是台湾（14.6%）、意大利（8.0%）和德国（8.0%）。被引用次数最多的75篇文章发表在22种期刊上，其中 排名第一，其次是 和 。共分析了345个关键词，“手”“缺损”“重建”和“再生”最为常见。证据级别4最为常见（40%），其次是级别3（25%）和级别5（24%）。
被引用次数最多的75篇手部显微外科文章影响着当前的外科实践和教材。了解手部显微外科的特定手术技术并研究其效果将使患者、外科医生、研究人员和政策制定者都受益。
