The 25 Most Cited Articles in Arthroscopic Orthopaedic Surgery

The fifty highest cited papers in anterior cruciate ligament injury

“…A large proportion of the articles were published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine, followed by the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, American Volume. Similar results have been seen in other fields were the USA led most rankings [11][12][13]27].…”

“…The highest cited paper on this topic has reached 989 citations [19]. This is even more clear, when compared to highest cited papers in hand and shoulder surgery or paediatric orthopaedics [10][11][12][13][14].…”

“…Analyses of most cited papers have been performed in various medical disciplines such as orthopaedic surgery or plastic surgery, various diseases such as burns or osteoporosis and a variety of orthopaedic subspecialties including arthroplasty, shoulder-, foot-or hand surgery [10][11][12][13][14]. However, no such study has been done focusing on BACL injury^.…”

The 50 Most-cited Articles in Orthopaedic Surgery From Mainland China

“…All the articles were written in English, probably because English is the most frequently used language in the orthopaedic literature, including orthopaedic subspecialties [1,3,6,13,16,17,19,24,25]. Moreover, the predominance of English-language articles may be one reason that fewer Chinese-authored orthopaedic articles appear in international journals compared with western countries, because writing in a foreign language may be a hindrance for Chinese researchers.…”

“…The number of citations received by an article is an indicator of its scientific impact and provides a useful approach for evaluating a paper's influence in its field [17,37]. Citation analyses have been performed in orthopaedic surgery [17,19] and its subspecialties, including pediatric orthopaedics [16], fracture surgery [1], shoulder surgery [25], foot and ankle surgery [3], spine surgery [24], hand surgery [15], joint arthroplasty [13], and arthroscopy [6]. However, there were no orthopaedic articles from China included in previous ''most-cited'' studies [17,19], and as far as we know, no study has been performed specifically to analyze the most-cited papers in orthopaedic surgery from mainland China.…”