What makes an orthopaedic paper highly citable? A bibliometric analysis of top orthopeadic journals with 10-year follow up

Purpose To examine a series of papers from top ranked orthopaedic journals with respect to the number of citations over a 10-year observation period to identify factors that lead to high citation rates. Methods The Web of Science database was consulted to identify all published papers from the first...

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Published in:Journal of experimental orthopaedics 2023-08, Vol.10 (1), p.78-n/a
Main Authors: Lutter, Mirjam, Rudolf, Henrik, Lenz, Robert, Hotfiel, Thilo, Tischer, Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bibliometric analysis
Bibliometrics
Citations
Impact factor
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
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Orthopaedic
Orthopedics
Surgical Orthopedics
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Summary:Purpose To examine a series of papers from top ranked orthopaedic journals with respect to the number of citations over a 10-year observation period to identify factors that lead to high citation rates. Methods The Web of Science database was consulted to identify all published papers from the first-year term of 2010 (January-May) from four top orthopaedic journals: AJSM, Arthroscopy, JBJS Am and KSSTA. The database was used to analyze and compare the papers with respect to their characteristics and citations up to 2019. Basic information for each paper was collected including the author, country, study type and average citations per year (ACY). The most (Top20%) and least (Bottom20%) frequently cited papers were identified and differences were extracted. Results Five hundred sixteen papers were included with a total of 19,261 citations. Most of the published papers were from the United States ( n  = 245). On average, a paper received 37.3 citations over the 10-year observation period. The most cited paper was cited 322 times. The most cited study type was randomized controlled trial (RCT) (Ø80.8). The Top20% papers were cited 37 times more often than the Bottom20%. Among the Top20%, the largest group was cohort study ( n  = 20) followed by case series ( n  = 19). Among others, the number of authors, the number of keywords and the number of references significantly correlated with the number of citations ( p  
ISSN:2197-1153
2197-1153
DOI:10.1186/s40634-023-00631-x