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. 2024 Sep 16:11:1372310.
doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2024.1372310. eCollection 2024.

Global trends of Pauwels type III femoral neck fractures: bibliometric analysis and visualized study

Mengyu Wang #  1   2 , Ze Zhang #  1   3 , Fengpo Sun  1 , Yi Zhu  1 , Ruining Han  1 , Zijie Pei  1 , Zhaoshuo He  1 , Junzhi Liu  1 , Liangyuan Wen  1   3
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Global trends of Pauwels type III femoral neck fractures: bibliometric analysis and visualized study

Mengyu Wang et al. Front Surg. .

Abstract

Background: Pauwels type III femoral neck fractures, as a serious type of femoral neck fractures, have brought about a heavy economic burden on families and society for the high disability rate. Through bibliometric research and visualized analysis, this study aimed at elucidating the global research status of Pauwels type III femoral neck fractures to date, and predicting the future research trends in this field.

Methods: Publications and associated information on Pauwels type III femoral neck fractures to date were retrieved from Web of Science Core Collection, and by VoSviewer and R package "bibliometrix", bibliometric analysis and visual presentation was conducted.

Results: By retrieval, a total of 98 studies were refinedly extracted, and the volume of publications in this field increased year-over-year. China ranked first in terms of total publication volume and H-Index, with its total citation records second only to the United States. The country with the highest average citation frequency was Switzerland. SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY was the most productive research institution. Among the authors in this field, Li, Jiantao had published the most researches. INJURY INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE CARE OF THE INJURED and JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC TRAUMA were the two magazines with the highest publication volume, total citation records, and H-index. According to keywords co-occurrence analysis, the research content in the past 24 years is mainly divided into four different dimensions. Finite element analysis, femoral neck system, medial buttress plate, cannulated screws, hip screw, open reduction, complications are hot topics for future research.

Conclusions: According to the global trends analysis of publications production, Pauwels type III femoral neck fractures are receiving increasing attention and input from scholars. China has made the greatest scientific research contribution among countries, but its academic quality should be improved further. The modified therapeutic methods designed for addressing the complications of traditional internal fixation for Pauwels III femoral neck fractures will be the future research hotspot.

Keywords: bibliometrics; femoral neck fracture; global trends; internal fixation; pauwels type III; visualized study.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
Literature retrieval and extraction strategy of this study. This study searched for all publications that meet the requirements to date, spanning from 1999 to 2023.
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Figure 2
Annual publication volume and proportion in this field from 1999 to 2023. This study analyzed the publication volume information as of July 7, 2023. So the number of publications in 2023 shown in the figure was relatively low and incomplete.
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Figure 3
Global distribution of publication volume and country collaboration about Pauwels III femoral neck fractures research. By 2023, all countries or regions that had published relevant research in this field had been marked with varying shades of blue, while countries marked in gray had not yet published such research.
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Figure 4
The high-frequency keywords in Pauwels III femoral neck fractures research field. The size of keywords was positively correlated with their frequency of occurrence in field of research. The higher the occurrence frequency was, the more prominent the keywords would be.
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Figure 5
Keywords co-occurrence analysis in the network clustering view using VOSviewer. This study simplified and merged the keywords with similar senses to a certain extent.
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Figure 6
The overlay label view of VOSviewer co-occurrence analysis. The depth of keywords colors represented the average time in which they appeared. The darker the color, the newer the research direction.
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Figure 7
The time span and frequency of each topic about Pauwels III femoral neck fractures research. This figure showed the top 15 terms with relatively high frequency of occurrence, covering a total time span of 2008 to 2023.
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Figure 8
The thematic map of keywords concerning Pauwels III femoral neck fractures.
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