Top 50 Cited Papers on Tibial Plateau Fracture Management: A Bibliometric Analysis and Review

Purpose The orthopaedic surgeons, especially the young budding surgeons should have a well-balanced knowledge of the past evidence as well the current evidence in the literature for the appropriate as well as optimum management of tibial plateau fractures. Bibliometric analysis of the top-cited papers on tibial plateau fracture management can help know their concurrent interests, deficiencies and conflicting issues regarding their management. This study aimed to identify the 50 most cited research articles in tibial plateau research and analyse their characteristics. Methods We searched the Thompson Reuters Web of Science database for articles relevant to tibial plateau fracture and prepared a list of top 50 cited articles that included original articles and review articles concerning tibial plateau fractures. The included articles were analysed for contributing journals, corresponding author’s country, publication year, cumulative citations, annual citations, citation trends over time, level of evidence and a qualitative review. Results The search strategy resulted in 2263 articles. The top 50 cited articles were published from 1974 to 2014 and belonged to 12 journal sources. There were 47 original articles and 3 review articles. The average citations per article were 126.2, and the annual citations per article were 6.478 per year. The top-cited articles were relevant to the strategies in the management, classification, fracture reduction, articular restoration, types and number of fixation devices, surgical approaches, associated menisco-ligamentous injuries and applicability of bone grafts/substitutes in tibial plateau fractures. Conclusion The current bibliometric analysis summarises the top-cited evidence concerning tibial plateau fractures and can be a potential resource for reviewing and locating the same. The analysis shows that most top-cited evidence belongs to the year 2000 onwards. Also, recent articles have a higher annual citation rate. A limited number of journals and mostly, western countries have contributed to the top-cited evidence. Whilst the top-cited evidence has touched several aspects of tibial plateau fractures, it is in the form of level IV case series. It needs better prospective evidence to establish sound recommendations..

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2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:57

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Indian journal of orthopaedics - 57(2023), 8 vom: 20. Juni, Seite 1226-1238

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kumar, Arvind [VerfasserIn]
Arora, Rajesh [VerfasserIn]
Sinha, Siddhartha [VerfasserIn]
Haidery, Tariq Hasan [VerfasserIn]
Jameel, Javed [VerfasserIn]
Khan, Rizwan [VerfasserIn]
Qureshi, Owais Ahmed [VerfasserIn]
Kumar, Sandeep [VerfasserIn]

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Bibliometric analysis
Fractures
Injury
Proximal tibia
Tibial plateau fractures

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10.1007/s43465-023-00932-4

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OLC2144760187