BACKGROUND:A new bibliometric index called the disruption score was recently proposed to identify innovative and paradigm-changing publications.
OBJECTIVE:The goal was to apply the disruption score to the colorectal surgery literature to provide the community with a repository of important research articles.DESIGN: This study is a bibliometric analysis.
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