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The fifty most cited Italian articles in the orthopaedic literature

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Purposes

It is widely known that in Orthopaedics, as in each specialty, the academic influence of an article is also determined by the number of times the article is cited. The aim of this study was to identify the 50 most frequently cited Italian orthopaedics journal articles and to analyse the characteristics that might have made them more citable.

Methods

Science Citation Index Expanded was searched for the 50 most frequently cited Italian orthopaedics journal articles between 1988 and 2013 in the subject category “Orthopaedics”.

Results

The 50 most frequently cited articles were all published in English and were published in 12 of the 67 journals in the subject category “Orthopaedics” in the Institute for Scientific Information Web Science (Thomson Reuters, New York, New York, USA). One half of the articles were published before 2000 and the other half later. The number of citations ranged from 423 of the first article (mean citation/years 21.15) to 83 of the fiftieth (mean citation/years 16.60). The articles were all categorized under orthopaedic field, but each of them spanned from orthopaedics to a specific sub-specialty. The majority was clinical articles (n = 39), and the most common fields were sport orthopaedic surgery (including arthroscopy and cartilage) (n = 19) and biomechanics (n = 12).

Conclusions

This list of 50 most frequently cited Italian articles is, to our knowledge, significantly important for the general orthopaedic scientific community, particularly for the Italian orthopaedic community. Researchers and doctors may use this work to make their future publications more influential and citable.

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  1. 1st Orthopedic Division, Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine, University of Pisa, Via Paradisa 2, 56124, Pisa, PI, Italy

    N. Piolanti, A. Nesti, L. Andreani, P. D. Parchi, V. Cervi, I. Castellini & S. Marchetti

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Piolanti, N., Nesti, A., Andreani, L. et al. The fifty most cited Italian articles in the orthopaedic literature. Musculoskelet Surg 99, 105–111 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12306-015-0352-5

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