Menz Hylton B, Munteanu Shannon E, Paterson Kade L, Golightly Yvonne M, Bowen Catherine J, Hannan Marian T, Chapman Lara S
Discipline of Podiatry, School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086 Australia.
Discipline of Podiatry, School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086 Australia.
Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2025 Apr;33(4):491-499. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2024.12.009. Epub 2025 Jan 31.
To conduct a bibliographic analysis of English language, non-surgical research pertaining to foot osteoarthritis (OA).
A Scopus® database search was conducted to identify all non-surgical foot OA articles published in English up until December 2023. Bibliometric analysis was performed using an open-source tool based on the R language. Citations, journals, authors, institutions, and countries were described. Publications were manually categorised according to research type and funding source.
The search strategy yielded 121 eligible articles, which received a total of 4531 citations and were published by 372 authors in 55 journals. The highest publication output occurred in the past decade. The most frequent journals were Arthritis Care & Research, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Foot & Ankle International and Journal of Foot and Ankle Research. The most published institutions were Keele University, La Trobe University, the University of Leeds, the University of Melbourne and the University of North Carolina. Of the 106 articles that could be classified, most were focused on aetiology (n=52, 49%), followed by evaluation of treatments and therapeutic interventions (n=28, 26%), detection, screening and diagnosis (n=17, 16%), health and social care services research (n=6, 6%) and underpinning research (3, 3%). Fifty-one articles (42%) reported no research funding.
Foot OA research has increased significantly in the past decade. There is a need, however, to improve our understanding of the condition and to address the relatively small number of clinical trials that have been conducted.
对有关足骨关节炎（OA）的英文非手术研究进行文献计量分析。
在Scopus®数据库中进行检索，以识别截至2023年12月发表的所有英文非手术足OA文章。使用基于R语言的开源工具进行文献计量分析。描述了引文、期刊、作者、机构和国家。根据研究类型和资金来源对出版物进行人工分类。
检索策略产生了121篇符合条件的文章，这些文章共获得4531次引用，由372位作者发表在55种期刊上。最高的发表量出现在过去十年。最常见的期刊是《关节炎护理与研究》《骨关节炎与软骨》《美国足病医学协会杂志》《风湿病年鉴》《足与踝关节国际》和《足与踝关节研究杂志》。发表文章最多的机构是基尔大学、拉筹伯大学、利兹大学、墨尔本大学和北卡罗来纳大学。在106篇可分类的文章中，大多数集中在病因学（n = 52，49%），其次是治疗和治疗干预的评估（n = 28，26%）、检测、筛查和诊断（n = 17，16%）、健康和社会护理服务研究（n = 6，6%）以及基础研究（3，3%）。51篇文章（42%）报告没有研究资金。
在过去十年中，足OA研究显著增加。然而，有必要提高我们对这种疾病的认识，并解决所进行的临床试验数量相对较少的问题。
