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. 2019 May 14:43:5-12.
doi: 10.1016/j.amsu.2019.05.002. eCollection 2019 Jul.

The top 100 manuscripts in emergency cardiac surgery. Potential role in cardiothoracic training. A bibliometric analysis

Rickesh B Karsan  1 , Arfon Gmt Powell  2   3 , Prakash Nanjaiah  1 , Dheeraj Mehta  1 , Vasileious Valtzoglou  1
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The top 100 manuscripts in emergency cardiac surgery. Potential role in cardiothoracic training. A bibliometric analysis

Rickesh B Karsan et al. Ann Med Surg (Lond). .

Abstract

Background: Emergency Cardiac Surgery (ECS) is a component of cardiothoracic training. Citations are considered to represent a papers influence. Bibliometric analyses allow us to identify the most influential work, and future research. We aim to highlight the key research themes within ECS and determine their potential impact on cardiothoracic training.

Methods: Thomas Reuters Web of Science was searched using terms [Emergency AND Card* AND Surg*]. Results were ranked by citation and reviewed by a panel of cardiac surgeons to identify the top 100 cited papers relevant to ECS. Papers were analysed by topic, journal and impact. Regression analysis was used to determine a link between impact factor and scientific impact.

Results: 3823 papers were identified. Median citations for the top 100 was 88. The paper with the highest impact was by Nashef et al. focusing on the use of EuroSCORE (2043 citations). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery published most papers (n = 18:1778 citations). The European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery coveted the most citations (n = 2649). The USA published most papers (n = 55).The most ubiquitous topics were; risk stratification, circulatory support and aortic surgery. A positive relationship between journal impact fact and the scientific impact of manuscripts in ECS (P = 0.043) was deduced.

Conclusion: This study is the first of its kind and identified the papers which are likely to the contribute most to training and understanding of ECS. A papers influence is partially determined by journal impact factor. Bibliometric analysis is a potent tool to identify surgical training needs.

Keywords: Bibliometric analysis; Citations; Emergency cardiac surgery; Training.

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Relationship between impact factor and number of citations.
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Number of manuscripts relating to individual topics with relevance to emergency cardiac surgery.
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