Six thousand papers already: “the outcome of a matter is better than its beginning…”

Useful and useless publications measured by bibliometrics and scientometrics in orthopaedic surgery. Are the relevance of a journal and publication metrics useful enough for the scientific promotion of surgeons?

“…To this end, an entirely new science has developed, called bibliometrics or scientometrics that deals only with measuring and comparing the publications' numbers and citation metrics of scientists and scholars [27][28][29][30][31]. The most important tool of bibliometric research is citation analysis that determines the quantity of citations of a specific journal's article, and ascertains the scientific effect of articles.…”

Classic publications and scientometrics in orthopaedics

“…Since its foundation in 1977, International Orthopaedics, the official journal of Société Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopédique et de Traumatologie (SICOT) has a 43-year publication history of offering a significant contribution to this field of medicine through its numerous high-quality papers. Each year, the journal receives >3000 high-quality paper submissions for consideration; of than number, approximately 400 of the highestquality papers qualify for publication; the number of times a paper is cited is widely used to measure a journal's scientific impact, as well the impact of the paper and the publishing authorship [8,[10][11][12].…”