Abstract
BackgroundThe past century has witnessed the rapid development of operation technique, surgical instruments, and knowledge of the diseases in orthopedics. In the academic history, a number of classic papers boosted the advancement for surgery. In this paper, we performed a bibliometric analysis, aiming to determine the most influential studies within the field.MethodsArticles were searched from the publication year of 1900 to 2016 according to the Science Citation Index Expanded database of the Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Core Collection database. Two citation indicators TCyear and Cyear were employed to characterize the classic articles and the articles were identified and analyzed.ResultsA total of 30 classic articles with TC2016 ≥ 1000 in Web of Science category of orthopedics were identified, all written in English between 1961 and 2007 by nine countries. The minimal value of TC2016 was 1010; the maximum 3570; and the average 1591. Thirty classic articles were published in eight journals that were listed in the Web of Science category of orthopedics in 2016, and in two other orthopedics journals that were no longer tracked by Web of Science category of orthopedics as of 2016. Among the top 10 cited articles in both TC2016 and C2016, five articles barely received attention in the first few years after their publication, while they became cited more and more frequently in the last decade.ConclusionThis study evaluated the development and trend of orthopedics research by adopting bibliometric analysis. It serves as a guide for investigators in the future research.
Highlights
The past century has witnessed the rapid development of operation technique, surgical instruments, and knowledge of the diseases in orthopedics
A total of 32 classic publications (0.011% of 302,299 documents) with TC2016 ≥ 1000 in Web of Science (WOS) of orthopedics were found within two document types indexed in the WOS
A review entitled “OARSI recommendations for the management of hip and knee osteoarthritis, Part II: OARSI evidence-based, expert consensus guidelines” [18] was the only classic document published in the latest year of 2008 in orthopedics field with TC2016 of 1394
Summary
The past century has witnessed the rapid development of operation technique, surgical instruments, and knowledge of the diseases in orthopedics. A number of classic papers boosted the advancement for surgery. The modern term orthopedics derives from the older word orthopaedia, title of a book published in 1741 by Nicholas Andry [1]. Two Greek words orthos and paedios serve as roots for orthopedic surgery. The former one means straight and free of deformity and the latter one means a child [2]. Orthopedic surgery demonstrates a rapid progress with several recent advances noted within orthopedic subspecialties [3,4,5], Li et al Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research (2019) 14:227
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