Research hotspots and trends of bone defects based on Web of Science: a bibliometric analysis

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research

Xiaotong Wang¹  Ziwei Jiang²  Zheng Wen²  Zhen Shen³  Minling Huang⁴  Zige Li⁴  Jingjing Wu⁴  Junyan Gao⁴  Haixiong Lin⁴  Huamei Chen⁴  Junjie Feng⁴  Feng Huang⁵ 

[1] Clinical Medical College of Acupuncture, Moxibustion and Rehabilitation, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, 510006, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China;Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, NO. 16 Jichang Road, Baiyun District, 510405, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China;Kunming Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Yunnan University of Chinese Medicine, 650011, Kunming, People’s Republic of China;The First School of Clinical Medicine, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, NO. 12 Jichang Road, Baiyun District, 510405, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China;The First School of Clinical Medicine, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, NO. 12 Jichang Road, Baiyun District, 510405, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China;Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, NO. 16 Jichang Road, Baiyun District, 510405, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China;

关键词: Bone defect;    CiteSpace;    Visual analysis;    Web of Science;    Bibliometrics;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13018-020-01973-3

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundBone defects can be seen everywhere in the clinic, but it is still a challenge for clinicians. Bibliometrics tool CiteSpace is based on the principle of “co-citation analysis theory” to reveal new technologies, hotspots, and trends in the medical field. In this study, CiteSpace was used to perform co-citation analysis on authors, countries (regions) and institutions, journals and cited journals, authors and cited literature, as well as keywords to reveal leaders, cooperative institutions, and research hotspots of bone defects and predict development trends.MethodData related to bone defect from 1994 to 2019 were retrieved from the Web of Science core collection; then, we use Excel to construct an exponential function to predict the number of annual publications; conduct a descriptive analysis on the top 10 journals with the largest number of publications; and perform co-citation analysis on authors, countries (regions) and institutions, journals and cited journals, authors and cited reference, and keywords using CiteSpace V5.5 and use the Burst Detection Algorithm to perform analysis on the countries (regions) and institutions and keywords, as well as cluster the keywords using log-likelihood ratio.ResultsA total of 5193 studies were retrieved, and the number of annual publications of bone defects showed an exponential function Y = 1×10− 70e0.0829x (R2 = 0.9778). The high-yield author was Choi Seong-Ho at Yonsei University in South Korea. The high-yielding countries were the USA and Germany, and the high-yielding institutions were the Sao Paulo University and China and the Chinese Academy of Sciences which were the emerging research countries and institutions. The research results were mainly published in the fields of dentistry, bone, and metabolism. Among them, the Journal of Dental Research and Journal of Bone and Mineral Research were high-quality journals that report bone defect research, but the most cited journal was the Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. Hot keywords were regeneration, repair, in vitro, bone regeneration, reconstruction, and graft. The keywords that were strongly cited in 2010–2019 were transportation, osteogenic differentiation, proliferation, and biomaterials. After 2018, proliferation, osteogenic differentiation, stromal cells, transmission, and mechanical properties have become new vocabulary. The drug delivery, vascularization, osteogenic differentiation and biomaterial properties of bone defects were expected to be further studied.ConclusionThe application of CiteSpace can reveal the leaders, cooperating institutions and research hotspots of bone defects and provide references for new technologies and further research directions.

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