Abstract
IntroductionOver the past two decades, Asia has experienced the rise and integration of Western medicine and digital health in its field of medicine. In this study, we investigated the trends in orthopaedic publications from three Asian countries: China, Japan, and Korea.MethodsPubMed was used to measure the number of publications from China, Japan, and Korea in the past 21 years, from 1998 to 2020. The average percentage change in publications during this 21-year time period was analyzed using descriptive statistics. The average annual change in the number of publications from each country was also determined. One-way analysis of variance and two-group t-tests were utilized for statistical analyses with a p-value of <0.05 as the cut-off value for statistical significance.ResultsFrom years 1998 to 2020, there was a mean 35.5% ± 70.7% annual increase in the number of total publications from China, in comparison to a 5.1% ± 14.0% annual increase from Japan (p = 0.005) and a 27.3% ± 40.0% annual increase from Korea (p = 0.586).ConclusionFor the past two decades, there has been a strong positive trend regarding the total number of orthopaedic publications from China. This finding might be related in part to an increased integration of Western medicine and the use of digital medicine, which followed a similar trend during the time period we analyzed. Korea and Japan also exhibited a positive trend in orthopaedic publications, which may be indicative of an improving educational system and greater general support for research.
Highlights
Over the past two decades, Asia has experienced the rise and integration of Western medicine and digital health in its field of medicine
The PubMed advanced search builder was used to measure the number of publications in six major orthopaedic journals that came from three countries: China, Japan, and Korea, in the past 21 years, from 1998 to 2020
While it was reasonable to presume that the number of publications from China may have had an impact on overall publications arising from Asia in the top six orthopaedic journals after this policy, the number of publications continued to increase in the year 2020
Summary
Over the past two decades, Asia has experienced the rise and integration of Western medicine and digital health in its field of medicine. We investigated the trends in orthopaedic publications from three Asian countries: China, Japan, and Korea
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