The Hundred Most-Cited Publications in Orthopaedic Knee Research

Abstract

Background: Despite its limitations, citation analysis remains one of the best currently available tools for quantifying

The fifty highest cited papers in anterior cruciate ligament injury

“…Furthermore, the listing of articles according to the number of absolute citations remains a selection [30]. Important and influential articles on the topic might have been excluded.…”

“…The citation numbers may be improperly increased by several practices including self-citations, subpublications, and timing of publication [31]. These limitations point out the necessity for other metrics to identify prestigious articles [30]. Although more objective journal metrics, for example the BSJR indicator^or the BEigenfactor-score^with all their benefits, including the evaluation of the importance of citations from various sources, the eliminated influence of self-citations, and the greater number of journals and languages included in the database, it was not possible to establish a ranking of the most influential and important articles on a specific topic by using these scores since they were developed to measure the total importance of a scientific journal but not single articles [31].…”

“…Although more objective journal metrics, for example the BSJR indicator^or the BEigenfactor-score^with all their benefits, including the evaluation of the importance of citations from various sources, the eliminated influence of self-citations, and the greater number of journals and languages included in the database, it was not possible to establish a ranking of the most influential and important articles on a specific topic by using these scores since they were developed to measure the total importance of a scientific journal but not single articles [31]. A recent development is web platforms, which provide alternative metric scores for articles, for example article views, downloads or mentions in social media and news media [30][31][32]. Given the rapid development and growing importance of these platforms, altmetrics, as here provided, may have a huge impact on the assessment of the importance of articles and journals in the near future.…”

“…Despite these limitations, we think that citation analysis remains one of the best currently available tools to assess the impact of scientific articles on their field [30].…”

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“…However, because the magnitude of the differences between the groups is so large (ie, mean 86 versus 33 citations), exclusion of self-citation would be unlikely, we believe, to change the major findings. Again, recent prior bibliometric studies in orthopaedics either acknowledge this as a limitation of the search strategy used but do not account for this bias or do not state whether self-citations were excluded [1,2,6,8,20].…”