What You Should Know About Osteoarthritis Rehabilitation: A Bibliometric Analysis of the 50 Most-Cited Articles

Abstract

Background: Osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease that commonly occurs in middle-aged and elderly people. High-quality articles in the field of osteoarthritis rehabilitation have not been studied in detail. Objective: To identify and conduct a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the 50 most-cited articles on osteoarthritis rehabilitation and provide valuable scientific information for researchers. Methods: Fifty articles related to the rehabilitation of individuals with osteoarthritis were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection. Basic information, such as the authors, title, number of citations, year of publication, journal, country/territory, and research type, was extracted. CiteSpace was used to visualize the keywords. Results: The average number of citations per article was 244.54. The top 50 articles were published in 27 journals and published by 262 authors. Most of the top 50 articles were published in the United States. The top 50 articles included 23 randomized controlled trials, 21 cohort studies, 2 case series, and 4 expert opinion articles. The most commonly studied topics in osteoarthritis rehabilitation included rehabilitation for pain, gait abnormalities, muscle strength deficiencies, and other functional impairments caused by osteoarthritis in elderly people. Conclusions: The top articles in the field of osteoarthritis rehabilitation have a high level of evidence. Collaboration between authors was high for highly-cited articles. Moreover, the eminent articles can provide important information for the education of doctors and therapists specializing in osteoarthritis rehabilitation.

Multi-Disciplinary Approach and Collaborative Studies Increase the Impact of Osteoarthritis Publications: A European Perspective

“…Different than previous studies (Gao et al, 2020;Muthu et al, 2022;Shu et al, 2022) however, we did not analyze coupling, co-authorship, co-occurrence and co-citations but focused only countries, authors, institutions, funding and research areas. Our findings for these parameters were in line with previous studies (Wang K et al, 2019;Chen et al, 2021;Wang et al, 2020;Zhang et al, 2022;Li et al, 2020;Patel et al, 2022). We did not use CiteSpace or VOSviewer software's for bibliometric and visualization analysis (Yang et al, 2022).…”

“…Another study (Muthu et al, 2022) additionally included text mining and cluster network analysis. Scientometric OA articles were mostly on global output (Gupta & Gupta, 2018), non-surgical interventions (Wang et al, 2019), rehabilitation (Wang et al, 2020), pain management (Chen et al, 2021), acupuncture (Li et al, 2020), hyaluronic acid (Zhang et al, 2020), platelet-rich plasma (Ren et al, 2021;Patel et al, 2022), bone marrow aspirate concentrate (Muthu et al, 2022), stem cells (Xing et al, 2018), macrophages (Yang et al, 2022), chondrocytes and mRNA (Hu et al, 2022), arthroscopy [Li et al, 2021), high-tibial osteotomy (Zhang et al, 2020), uni-compartmental knee arthroplasty (Liu et al, 2020), primary total knee arthroplasty (Mirghaderi et al, 2022) and shoulder arthroplasty (Shu & Ou & Hu, 2022). Three studies (Wei, 2020;Vilchez-Roman et al,2021); Zhang & Blazar & Kilgallen, 2022) focused on the social dimension of scientific activities and academic impact of OA articles.…”

Bibliometric Analysis of 100 Most-Cited Articles in Delirium

“…Keyword co-occurrence analysis can show the relationship between the main keywords, and cluster analysis is to classify keywords and group some keywords with the same attributes. Keyword co-occurrence analysis and cluster analysis of the top-100 articles can help readers sort out the hot areas of popular literature research and current research trends ( 8 , 25 ). The results suggest that the research direction in the field of delirium focuses on the evaluation and treatment of delirium in critically ill patients and postoperative delirium ( 1 , 26 , 27 ).…”

“…Bibliometric analysis is an important tool to evaluate research performance and identify influential papers in specific fields ( 8 ). Articles with high citation frequency can provide important information about the current research situation in a certain field ( 9 ).…”

Research on Herbal Therapies for Osteoarthritis in 2004–2022: A Web of Science-Based Cross-Sectional Bibliometric Analysis

“…Bibliometrics is a cross-science that uses mathematical and statistical methods to study documents and bibliometric characteristics [ 12 , 13 ], such as countries/regions, institutions, journals, authors, and citations. [ 14 ].…”