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Janssen, M; Linden, Esther G M van der; Boymans, Tim A.E.J.; Welting, T.; Rhijn, Lodewijk W. van; Bulstra, Sjoerd K.; Emans, P.J.

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“…The oldest included study was published in 1990 and focused on perichondral grafting, a procedure involving a costal perichondrium graft to address knee cartilage defects [36]. Nowadays, this technique is no more used, since it showed not excellent results at long‐term follow‐up and has been overcome by more innovative and attractive techniques [39]. The most‐cited article, with over 4000 citations, was the first relevant report on the chondrocyte‐based regenerative techniques, published by Brittberg et al in 1994 [11].…”

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The 50 most-cited clinical articles in cartilage surgery research: a bibliometric analysis

Franceschini

Boffa

Andriolo

et al. 2022

Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc

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PurposeArticular cartilage lesions remain a challenge for orthopedic surgeons. The identification of the most important articles can help identifying the most influential techniques of the past, the current prevalent focus, and emerging strategies. The aim of this study was to identify milestones and trends in cartilage research. MethodsThis study is a bibliometric analysis based on published articles. All citation count data included in the “Scopus database” were used to identify eligible studies up to December 2020. The 50 most‐cited articles on cartilage surgery were ranked based on the citation count and analyzed regarding citation density and quality (Coleman score and RoB 2.0 tool). A further search was performed to identify the most promising clinical studies among the latest publications on cartilage surgery. ResultsDifferent kinds of cartilage treatments were investigated in the 50 most‐cited clinical articles. Regenerative techniques with chondrocytes were the most reported with a total of 23 articles, followed by microfracture technique in 17 articles and mosaicplasty or osteochondral autograft transplantation (OAT) in 11. Forty‐five articles focused on the knee. A higher citation density was found in the most recent articles (p = 0.004). The study of the most promising landmarks of the most recent articles showed new cell‐free or tissue engineering‐based procedures and an overall increasing quality of the published studies. ConclusionThis bibliometric analysis documented an increasing interest in cartilage surgery, with efforts toward high‐quality studies. Over the years, the focus switched from reconstructive toward regenerative techniques, with emerging options including cell‐free and tissue‐engineering strategies to restore the cartilage surface. Level of evidenceIV.

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