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. 2018 Dec 6;10(4):7715.
doi: 10.4081/or.2018.7715.

The 50 most cited articles about wrist surgery

Nicola Piolanti  1 , Andrea Poggetti  1 , Anna Maria Nucci  1 , Agnese Nesti  1 , Stefano Marchetti  1 , Paolo Domenico Parchi  1 , Michelangelo Scaglione  1
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The 50 most cited articles about wrist surgery

Nicola Piolanti et al. Orthop Rev (Pavia). .

Abstract

The purpose was to establish a ranking of the 50 most cited articles about wrist surgery and analyse their features. Science Citation Index Expanded was used to identify the 50 most frequently cited orthopaedic journal articles written in English, searching for the topic "wrist surgery" in the subject category ''Orthopaedics''. Then, we analysed the number of citations, citation density, authorship, article institution, the year of publication, the country of origin of the article, name and impact factor of the journal, and publication type of the article. The 50 most cited articles were published in only 6 of the 74 journals included under the category "orthopaedics". Citation count ranged from 256 for the first one to 67 for the 50th article. Most of them were written by American authors. These articles were published between 1991 and 2011. "Distal Radius Fractures" was the most common issue. This type of bibliographic analysis could be particularly useful for other young Authors who would like to improve their research in wrist and hand surgery and make their publications more citable and appreciated by the scientific community.

Keywords: Wrist surgery; bibliographic analysis; citation density; impact factor; most cited article.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: the authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Distribution of the published articles per year.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
The most popular issues were “distal radius fractures”(n=15), followed by “wrist motion and anatomy” (n=7).
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