Introduction
Methods
Results and discussion
Document type and language of publication
Document type | TP | % | TP* | AU | APP | TC2019 | CPP2019 |
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Article | 8976 | 89 | 8976 | 41,914 | 4.7 | 194,140 | 22 |
Review | 683 | 6.8 | 683 | 2902 | 4.2 | 19,319 | 28 |
Proceedings paper | 306 | 3.0 | 306 | 1393 | 4.6 | 12,691 | 41 |
Letter | 137 | 1.4 | 137 | 305 | 2.2 | 348 | 2.5 |
Meeting abstract | 122 | 1.2 | 118 | 601 | 5.1 | 35 | 0.29 |
Editorial material | 97 | 1.0 | 96 | 249 | 2.6 | 699 | 7.2 |
Note | 27 | 0.27 | 27 | 69 | 2.6 | 310 | 11 |
Correction | 15 | 0.15 | 15 | 59 | 3.9 | 8 | 0.53 |
Retracted publication | 7 | 0.070 | 7 | 37 | 5.3 | 122 | 17 |
Book chapter | 4 | 0.040 | 4 | 21 | 5.3 | 54 | 14 |
Reprint | 3 | 0.030 | 3 | 13 | 4.3 | 48 | 16 |
News item | 2 | 0.020 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0 | 0 |
Discussion | 1 | 0.010 | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 1.0 |
Retraction | 1 | 0.010 | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 |
Historical publication and citation trends
Web of Science categories and journals
Web of Science category | TP (%) | No. J | APP | CPP2019 |
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Orthopaedics | 6223 (69) | 82 | 4.4 | 23 |
Surgery | 4334 (48) | 210 | 4.4 | 25 |
Emergency medicine | 875 (10) | 31 | 4.4 | 17 |
Sport sciences | 855 (10) | 85 | 4.5 | 24 |
Critical care medicine | 844 (9.4) | 36 | 4.6 | 23 |
Clinical neurology | 501 (5.6) | 204 | 5.2 | 34 |
General and internal medicine | 260 (2.9) | 165 | 4.8 | 6.1 |
Paediatrics | 227 (2.5) | 128 | 4.2 | 15 |
Research and experimental medicine | 209 (2.3) | 138 | 6.0 | 14 |
Biomedical engineering | 198 (2.2) | 87 | 6.5 | 25 |
Journal | TP (%) | IF2019 | APP | CPP2019 | Web of Science category |
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Injury-International Journal of the Care of the Injured | 657 (7.3) | 2.106 | 4.5 | 21 | Critical care medicine Emergency medicine Orthopaedics Surgery |
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research | 470 (5.2) | 4.329 | 3.8 | 38 | Orthopaedics Surgery |
Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma | 466 (5.2) | 1.897 | 4.6 | 29 | Orthopaedics Sport sciences |
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery-American Volume | 332 (3.7) | 4.578 | 4.9 | 71 | Orthopaedics Surgery |
Journal of Hand Surgery-American Volume | 290 (3.2) | 2.124 | 3.8 | 25 | Orthopaedics Surgery |
Foot & Ankle International | 264 (2.9) | 2.292 | 4.1 | 22 | Orthopaedics |
Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery | 235 (2.6) | 2.021 | 4.6 | 15 | Orthopaedics Surgery |
International Orthopaedics | 233 (2.6) | 2.854 | 4.8 | 14 | Orthopaedics |
Spine | 184 (2.0) | 2.646 | 5.2 | 49 | Clinical neurology Orthopaedics |
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery-British Volume | 182 (2.0) | IF2014=3.309 | 4.0 | 48 | Orthopaedics Surgery |
Publication performance of countries, institutions and authors
Institute | TP | TPR (%) | IPR (%) | CPR (%) | FPR (%) | RPR (%) | SPR (%) |
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USA | 3262 | 1 (36) | 1 (34) | 1 (54) | 1 (33) | 1 (33) | 1 (39) |
Germany | 811 | 2 (9.0) | 2 (7.5) | 2 (22) | 2 (7.8) | 2 (8.0) | 3 (6.1) |
UK | 701 | 3 (7.8) | 4 (6.8) | 3 (16) | 4 (6.9) | 4 (7.0) | 3 (6.1) |
China | 667 | 4 (7.4) | 3 (7.3) | 6 (8.8) | 3 (7.0) | 3 (7.0) | 11 (1.9) |
France | 447 | 5 (5.0) | 5 (4.6) | 8 (8.0) | 5 (4.6) | 5 (4.6) | 6 (4.5) |
Japan | 389 | 6 (4.3) | 6 (4.3) | 12 (4.3) | 6 (4.0) | 6 (4.0) | 15 (1.3) |
Canada | 331 | 7 (3.7) | 10 (2.5) | 4 (13) | 8 (3.0) | 8 (2.9) | 7 (2.9) |
South Korea | 312 | 8 (3.5) | 7 (3.4) | 12 (4.3) | 7 (3.3) | 7 (3.3) | 21 (0.79) |
Italy | 271 | 9 (3.0) | 11 (2.4) | 7 (8.1) | 10 (2.5) | 10 (2.5) | 28 (0.26) |
Switzerland | 269 | 10 (3.0) | 13 (1.7) | 4 (13) | 13 (2.0) | 13 (2.0) | 8 (2.4) |
Institute | TP | TPR (%) | IPR (%) | CPR (%) | FPR (%) | RPR (%) |
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Mayo Clinic, USA | 134 | 1 (1.5) | 1 (1.6) | 4 (1.4) | 1 (1.0) | 1 (1.1) |
Hospital for Special Surgery, USA | 104 | 2 (1.2) | 8 (0.62) | 2 (1.6) | 5 (0.61) | 4 (0.60) |
University of Toronto, Canada | 103 | 3 (1.1) | 14 (0.50) | 1 (1.7) | 9 (0.51) | 13 (0.40) |
Massachusetts General Hospital, USA | 92 | 4 (1.0) | 12 (0.55) | 3 (1.4) | 2 (0.65) | 3 (0.65) |
Harvard University, USA | 89 | 5 (1.0) | 5 (0.67) | 6 (1.3) | 10 (0.50) | 10 (0.48) |
New York University (NYU), USA | 87 | 6 (1.0) | 11 (0.57) | 5 (1.3) | 4 (0.64) | 6 (0.54) |
Washington University, USA | 83 | 7 (0.93) | 8 (0.62) | 8 (1.2) | 7 (0.54) | 7 (0.53) |
University of Washington, USA | 80 | 8 (0.89) | 13 (0.52) | 7 (1.2) | 18 (0.35) | 16 (0.36) |
Duke University, USA | 79 | 9 (0.88) | 6 (0.64) | 10 (1.1) | 11 (0.49) | 8 (0.51) |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China | 70 | 10 (0.78) | 3 (1.0) | 24 (0.63) | 6 (0.60) | 4 (0.60) |
University of California San Francisco, USA | 70 | 10 (0.78) | 18 (0.41) | 9 (1.1) | 16 (0.41) | 16 (0.36) |
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h = π/2, j is the number of corresponding-author articles.
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π/2 > h > 0.7854 indicates more corresponding-author articles.
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h = 0.7854 indicates the same number of first- and corresponding-author articles.
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0.7854 > h > 0 indicates more first-author articles.
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h = 0, j is the number of first-author articles.
Author | Rank (TP) | Rank (FP) | FP CPP2019 | Rank (RP) | RP CPP2019 | Rank (SP) | SP CPP2019 | Rank (j) |
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P.V. Giannoudis | 1 (50) | 5 (12) | 60 | 1 (35) | 49 | N/A | N/A | 3 (46) |
J.B. Jupiter | 2 (48) | 22 (7) | 40 | 25 (10) | 32 | 9 (2) | 47 | 26 (15) |
C.C. Wu | 3 (42) | 1 (36) | 18 | 1 (35) | 18 | 1 (15) | 13 | 1 (70) |
D. Ring | 4 (41) | 2 (23) | 51 | 3 (30) | 41 | 5 (3) | 80 | 2 (50) |
A.T. Bishop | 5 (40) | 1178 (1) | 92 | 6 (14) | 31 | N/A | N/A | 26 (15) |
G. Schmidmaier | 6 (39) | 37 (6) | 61 | 35 (8) | 50 | N/A | N/A | 34 (14) |
D.L. Helfet | 7 (37) | 180 (3) | 62 | 33 (9) | 27 | N/A | N/A | 71 (10) |
E.H. Schemitsch | 8 (36) | N/A | N/A | 50 (7) | 24 | N/A | N/A | 163 (7) |
M. Bhandari | 9 (34) | 13 (9) | 93 | 13 (12) | 66 | N/A | N/A | 12 (19) |
K.A. Egol | 9 (34) | 22 (7) | 105 | 4 (25) | 16 | N/A | N/A | 4 (32) |
Top ten most frequently cited nonunion-related articles
Rank (TC2019) | Rank (C2019) | Title | Country | Reference |
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1 (1389) | 4 (69) | Bone morphogenetic proteins | USA | Chen et al. [25] |
2 (1056) | 5 (56) | Tissue-engineered bone regeneration | France | Petite et al. [26] |
3 (937) | 10 (39) | Recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 for treatment of open tibial fractures: A prospective, controlled, randomized study of four hundred and fifty patients | South Africa, USA, Israel, Finland, UK, Germany, France, Australia, Canada, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway | Govender et al. [27] |
4 (723) | 217 (10) | Osteogenic protein-1 (bone morphogenetic protein-7) in the treatment of tibial nonunions: A prospective, randomized clinical trial comparing rhOP-1 with fresh bone autograft | USA | Friedlaender et al. [28] |
5 (636) | 55 (17) | The effect of implants loaded with autologous mesenchymal stem cells on the healing of canine segmental bone defects | USA | Bruder et al. [29] |
6 (543) | 6 (49) | Percutaneous autologous bone-marrow grafting for nonunions: Influence of the number and concentration of progenitor cells | France | Hernigou et al. [30] |
7 (482) | 17 (30) | Cyclooxygenase-2 regulates mesenchymal cell differentiation into the osteoblast lineage and is critically involved in bone repair | USA | Zhang et al. [31] |
8 (442) | 9 (41) | Nonoperative treatment compared with plate fixation of displaced midshaft clavicular fractures: A multicenter, randomized clinical trial | Canada | Society COT et al. [32] |
9 (439) | 16 (32) | Magnitudes of local stress and strain along bony surfaces predict the course and type of fracture healing | Germany | Claes and Heigele [33] |
10 (430) | 21 (25) | Closed treatment of displaced middle-third fractures of the clavicle gives poor results | USA | Hill et al. [34] |
Research focuses and their development trends
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Topic 1: EpidemiologySupporting words—epidemiology, incidence, incidences, prevalence and prevalences
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Topic 2: Aetiology (or etiology, or cause)Supporting words—aetiology, cause, causes, caused, factor, factors, heal, heals, infection, infections, infectious, infected and etiology
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Topic 3: ClassificationSupporting words—classification and classifications
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Topic 4: Diagnosis and prediction of nonunionSupporting words—predict, predictable, predictably, predicting, prediction, predictive, predictor, predictors, predicts, score, scoring, scores, diagnose, diagnoses, diagnosing, diagnosis, diagnostic, diagnostics, radiographic, radiographs, radiography, radiologic, radiological, radiotherapy, radioulnar, biomarkers, mark, markedly, marker and markers
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Topic 5: Treatment modalitiesSupporting words—treat, treating, treatment, treatments, management, manage and managing
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Topic 6: Functional outcomesSupporting words—outcome and outcomes
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Topic 7: Health economicsSupporting words—cost, costs, economic, economical, economically, economics, burden and burdens