Top 100 cited articles on infection in orthopaedics

Abstract

Purpose:The infection is an essential problem in the clinical practice in orthopedics. The bibliometric analysis was conducted to evaluate the top 100 cited articles on infection in orthopaedics.Methods:The Web of Science (WoS) Core Database was comprehensively searched from 1975 to 2017, and the literature search was limited in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E). The subject terms included “infection”, “infectious”, and “infect∗”. All retrieved articles were filtrated by selecting the subspecialty of “Orthopedics”. The searching results were listed by citation times to identify the top 100 cited articles. Significant information was elicited, including the authors, journals, countries, institutions, published year, and types of publication.Results:A significant increase was observed in the number of annual publications focusing on infection in orthopedics worldwide. Each of the top 100 cited articles was cited more than 150 times. Total citation times was positively associated with citation times in 2016 (P <.01) and mean citation times per year (P <.01). Conversely, age of the article was negatively associated with citation times in 2016 (P <.01) and mean citation times per year (P <.01). Besides, citation times in 2016 was positively related to mean citation times per year (P <.01). The United States was the most productive country, surgery was the most popular subspecialty and Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery American Volume was the most popular journal.Conclusion:Infection in orthopaedics has attracted more and more researchers’ concern. As for the top 100 cited articles, there were significant relationships among total citation times, citation times in 2016 and mean citation times per year as well as age of the article. The United States was the most productive country, surgery was the most popular subspecialty and Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery American Volume was the most popular journal.

The 100 top-cited studies on vaccine: a bibliometric analysis

“…This finding was in accordance with other previous studies. 19,27 The USA had the highest total citation times. Besides, most productive authors were from the USA.…”

“…Our study found that some developing country such as China, Brazil and Chile were selected in rankings, which was entirely different from some other fields, such as infection in orthopedics. 19,27 It should be noted that the two studies from China were not from China mainland, where has the most populations worldwide. Besides, no study was from India, which has the second largest population worldwide.…”

Predicting article citations using data of 100 top-cited publications in the journal Medicine since 2011

“…Visualizing the characteristics of data is important and interesting for readers. [ 20 ] Finally, the distinct difference from previous articles [ 10 – 15 ] was that only recent articles collected were included in this study, which improved the relevance and importance for readers.…”

“…Although findings are promising based on the above analysis, several potential limitations may encourage further research efforts. First, the study data were only downloaded from PMC, different from other studies [ 10 – 15 ] that used the combination of science Scientific Citation Index (SCI), Scopus, and Google Scholar. Several journals in PubMed have not been indexed by the database of SCI.…”

“…[ 1 , 2 ] For instance, several publications determined the most influential papers using citation analysis in oral lichen planus, [ 10 ] prenatal diagnosis, [ 11 ] oral leukoplakia research, [ 12 ] inflammatory bowel disease, [ 13 ] rheumatoid arthritis, [ 14 ] and infection in orthopedics. [ 15 ] Similarly, some addressed RAs and RDs for journals through bibliometric analyses. [ 16 – 19 ] However, all aforementioned articles applied the same method and provided information limited to DS, RA, and RD, which is a state that we wish to challenge and make a breakthrough with the citation prediction of article types.…”