A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization of Current Research Trends in the Treatment of Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy

Yin, Mengchen; Xu, Chongqing; Ma, Jinghong; Ye, Jie; Mo, Wen

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“…Loss of normal lordotic curvature has been recently reported to increase in the Korean population, especially in younger individuals [ 28 ]. Furthermore, recent studies indicate that cervical alignment is associated with postoperative outcome [ 29 ] and disc herniation [ 30 ], and an emerging trend of increasing interest for cervical alignment was noted [ 31 ]. In this context, the findings of the current study, showing a significant relationship between cervical alignment and DCS score, warrant further clinical research.…”

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Association between Sagittal Cervical Spinal Alignment and Degenerative Cervical Spondylosis: A Retrospective Study Using a New Scoring System

Lee

Hong

et al. 2022

JCM

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(1) Background: Prolonged neck flexion is thought to cause harmful loading on the cervical spine. Along with the degenerative process, cervical alignment tends to change toward lordotic curvature. The association between cervical alignment and cervical spondylosis remains unclear. (2) Methods: Three raters retrospectively assessed cervical radiographies of outpatients at a tertiary center in 2019 using degenerative cervical spondylosis score (DCS score; a newly developed scoring system), C2-7 absolute rotational angle (ARA), and C2-7 sagittal vertical axis (SVA). (3) Results: A total of 561 patients were included in the analysis. Multiple regression analysis with adjustments for age and sex revealed that C2-7 ARA, rather than SVA, was a significant parameter for degenerative spondylosis. The interaction between age and C2-7 ARA was significant, indicating that the increase in DCS score with increasing age was more pronounced in patients with kyphotic cervical alignment. The direct effect of age on DCS score was 0.349 (95% CI 0.319 to 0.380, p < 0.001) and the proportion of the mediation effect of C2-7 ARA was −0.125 (p < 0.001). (4) Conclusions: C2-7 ARA was significantly associated with DCS after adjustment for both age and sex. Subjects with more kyphotic cervical alignment showed a greater correlation between increased DCS score and older age.

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Association between Sagittal Cervical Spinal Alignment and Degenerative Cervical Spondylosis: A Retrospective Study Using a New Scoring System

Lee

Hong

et al. 2022

JCM

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“…The present study performs a bibliometric analysis and review of IVD biomechanical literatures included in Web of Science core collection, which is one of the largest and most reputable global citation databases, as well as a widely used database for bibliometric analysis. [17][18][19] The search strategy and flowchart of literature selection are shown in Table 1 and Figure 1, respectively. This study only included records of which documents are original research articles, review articles, early access papers, or proceedings papers.…”

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“…The present study aims to explore the emerging trends, landmark studies, and major contributors of IVD biomechanics over several decades using bibliometric analysis, a widely used quantitative method to understand the knowledge structure of a specific domain. [17][18][19] In particular, citation count is widely used as a metric by bibliometric studies to determine the impact of a portion of peer-reviewed papers. 20 However, the overall citation count of a study is not indicative of its impact on a specific domain.…”

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From Mechanobiology to Mechanical Repair Strategies: A Bibliometric Analysis of Biomechanical Studies of Intervertebral Discs

Zhang¹,

Feng²,

Liu³

et al. 2022

JPR

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Neck pain and low back pain are major challenges in public health, and intervertebral disc (IVD) biomechanics is an important multidisciplinary field. To date, no bibliometric literature review of the relevant literature has been performed, so we explored the emerging trends, landmark studies, and major contributors to IVD biomechanics research. We searched the Web of Science core collection (1900-2022) using keywords mainly composed of "biomechanics" and "intervertebral disc" to conduct a bibliometric analysis of original papers and their references, focusing on citations, authors, journals, and countries/regions. A co-citation analysis and clustering of the references were also completed. A total of 3189 records met the inclusion criteria. In the co-citation network, cluster #0, labeled as "annulus fibrosus tissue engineering", and cluster #1, labeled as "micromechanical environment", were the biggest clusters. References by MacLean et al and Holzapfel et al were positioned exactly between them and had high betweenness centrality. There existed a research topic evolution between mechanobiology and mechanical repair strategies of IVDs, and the latter had been identified as an emerging trend in IVD biomechanics. Numerous landmark studies had contributed to several fields, including mechanical testing of normal and pathological IVDs, mechanical evaluation of new repair strategies and development of finite element model. Adams MA was the author most cited by IVD biomechanics papers. Spine, the European Spine Journal, and the Journal of Biomechanics were the three journals where the most original articles and their references have been published. The United States has contributed most to the literature (n = 1277 papers); however, the research output of China is increasing. In conclusion, the present study suggests that IVD repair is an emerging trend in IVD biomechanics.

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“…Nowadays, bibliometric analysis has been widely adopted in summarizing medical fields, like emerging techniques (15)(16)(17) and common disease (18)(19)(20). In spine field, bibliometric studies about cervical myelopathy (21), spinal stenosis (22), spinal cord injury (23), scoliosis (24) are thriving. However, no bibliometric study concerning lumbar spondylolisthesis was available.…”

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Research topics and trends of lumbar spondylolisthesis: a bibliometric study with machine-learning based text mining

Fan

Qin

et al. 2022

Preprint

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ObjectivesThe study aimed to conduct a bibliometric analysis of publications concerning lumbar spondylolisthesis, as well as explore its research topics and trends with machine-learning based text mining.MethodsThe data were extracted from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) database and analyzed in Rstudio1.3.1. Annual publication production and the top 20 productive authors over time were presented. Additionally, top 20 productive journals and top 20 impact journals were compared by spine-subspecialty or not. Similarly, top 20 productive countries/regions and top 20 impact countries/regions were compared by developed countries/regions or not. The collaborative relationship among countries and the research trends in the past decade were presented by R package “Bibliometrix”. Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) analysis was conducted to classify main topics of lumbar spondylolisthesis.ResultsUp to 2021, a total number of 4990 articles concerning lumbar spondylolisthesis were finally included for analysis. Spine-subspecialty journals were found to be dominant in productivity and impact of the field, and SPINE, EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL and JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY-SPINE were the top 3 productive and the top 3 impact journals in this field. USA, China and Japan have contributed to over half of the publication productivity, but European countries seemed to publish more influential articles. It seemed that developed countries/regions tended to produce more articles as well as high influential articles, and international collaborations focused on USA, Europe and eastern Asia. Publications concerning emerging surgical technique was the major topic, followed by radiographic measurement and epidemiology for this field. Cortical bone trajectory, oblique lumbar interbody fusion, oblique lateral lumbar interbody fusion, lateral lumbar interbody fusion, degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis, adjacent segment disease, spinal canal stenosis, minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion and percutaneous pedicle screw were the recent hotspots over the past 5 years.ConclusionsThe study successfully summarized the productivity and impact of different countries/regions and journals, which should benefit the journal selection and pursuit of international collaboration for researcher who were interested in the field of lumbar spondylolisthesis. Additionally, the current study may encourage more researchers in the field and somewhat inform their research direction in the future.

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A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization of Current Research Trends in the Treatment of Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy

Cited by 54 publications

References 39 publications

Association between Sagittal Cervical Spinal Alignment and Degenerative Cervical Spondylosis: A Retrospective Study Using a New Scoring System

Association between Sagittal Cervical Spinal Alignment and Degenerative Cervical Spondylosis: A Retrospective Study Using a New Scoring System

From Mechanobiology to Mechanical Repair Strategies: A Bibliometric Analysis of Biomechanical Studies of Intervertebral Discs

Research topics and trends of lumbar spondylolisthesis: a bibliometric study with machine-learning based text mining

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