The 50 Highest Cited Papers in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty

Abstract

The 50 highest cited articles related to hip and knee arthroplasty were searched in Thomson ISI Web of Science®. The 50 highest cited articles had up to 2495 citations. The top 10 papers according to absolute number were cited 580 times at least. Most papers were published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery American Volume (n = 22). Eight countries contributed to the list with most contributions from the United States (n = 30). The majority of papers were published since 1990 (n = 27). Studies focusing on the clinical outcome of hip arthroplasty dominate the literature in orthopedic arthroplasty in respect to absolute citations numbers. In the last decade however, papers on perioperative management have been published that show a high citation frequency.

The fifty highest cited papers in anterior cruciate ligament injury

“…These numbers are lower than the highest cited papers in the industry driven field of arthroplasty [15]. However, the number of citations seems to be quite high when compared to the most cited articles in the subspecialty BOrthopaedic Cartilage Surgery^, for example, which may be a comparable Bhot topic^in the recent orthopaedic literature.…”

“…[24]. These point to the fact that there are numerous high quality papers in the field of ACL injury research, especially when compared to other fields such as arthroplasty, where most papers were level of evidence IV [15].…”

“…Each paper was assigned to a single country according to the corresponding author's address because of the corresponding author's primary responsibility for the study [15].…”

The 50 Most-cited Articles in Orthopaedic Surgery From Mainland China

“…All the articles were written in English, probably because English is the most frequently used language in the orthopaedic literature, including orthopaedic subspecialties [1,3,6,13,16,17,19,24,25]. Moreover, the predominance of English-language articles may be one reason that fewer Chinese-authored orthopaedic articles appear in international journals compared with western countries, because writing in a foreign language may be a hindrance for Chinese researchers.…”

“…The number of citations received by an article is an indicator of its scientific impact and provides a useful approach for evaluating a paper's influence in its field [17,37]. Citation analyses have been performed in orthopaedic surgery [17,19] and its subspecialties, including pediatric orthopaedics [16], fracture surgery [1], shoulder surgery [25], foot and ankle surgery [3], spine surgery [24], hand surgery [15], joint arthroplasty [13], and arthroscopy [6]. However, there were no orthopaedic articles from China included in previous ''most-cited'' studies [17,19], and as far as we know, no study has been performed specifically to analyze the most-cited papers in orthopaedic surgery from mainland China.…”