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Trends of spinal tuberculosis research (1994–2015): A bibliometric study

BACKGROUND: Spinal tuberculosis is the most common form of skeletal tuberculosis. However, there were limited data to evaluate the trend of spinal tuberculosis research. This study aims to investigate the trend of spinal tuberculosis research and compare the contribution of research from different c...

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Autores principales: Wang, Yiran, Wang, Qijin, Zhu, Rongbo, Yang, Changwei, Chen, Ziqiang, Bai, Yushu, Li, Ming, Zhai, Xiao
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5044914/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27661044
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000004923
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author Wang, Yiran
Wang, Qijin
Zhu, Rongbo
Yang, Changwei
Chen, Ziqiang
Bai, Yushu
Li, Ming
Zhai, Xiao
author_facet Wang, Yiran
Wang, Qijin
Zhu, Rongbo
Yang, Changwei
Chen, Ziqiang
Bai, Yushu
Li, Ming
Zhai, Xiao
author_sort Wang, Yiran
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description BACKGROUND: Spinal tuberculosis is the most common form of skeletal tuberculosis. However, there were limited data to evaluate the trend of spinal tuberculosis research. This study aims to investigate the trend of spinal tuberculosis research and compare the contribution of research from different countries and authors. METHODS: Spinal tuberculosis-related publications from 1994 to 2015 were retrieved from the Web of Science database. Excel 2013, GraphPad Prism 5, and VOSviewer software were used to analyze the search results for number of publications, cited frequency, H-index, and country contributions. RESULTS: A total of 1558 papers were identified and were cited 16,152 times as of January 25, 2016. The United States accounted for 15.1% of the articles, 22.3% of the citations, and the highest H-index (33). China ranked third in total number of articles, fifth in citation frequency (815), and ranked seventh in H-index (13). The journal Spine (IF 2.297) had the highest number of publications. The author Jain A.K. has published the most papers in this field (20). The article titled “Tuberculosis of the spine: Controversies and a new challenge” was the most popular article and cited a total of 1138 times. The keyword “disease” was mentioned the most for 118 times and the word “bone fusion” was the latest hotspot by 2015. CONCLUSION: Literature growth in spinal tuberculosis is slowly expanding. Although publications from China are increasing, the quality of the articles still requires improvements. Meanwhile, the United States continues to be the largest contributor in the field of spinal tuberculosis. According to our bibliometric study, bone fusion may be an emerging topic within spinal tuberculosis research and is something that should be closely observed.
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spelling pubmed-50449142016-10-06 Trends of spinal tuberculosis research (1994–2015): A bibliometric study Wang, Yiran Wang, Qijin Zhu, Rongbo Yang, Changwei Chen, Ziqiang Bai, Yushu Li, Ming Zhai, Xiao Medicine (Baltimore) 4900 BACKGROUND: Spinal tuberculosis is the most common form of skeletal tuberculosis. However, there were limited data to evaluate the trend of spinal tuberculosis research. This study aims to investigate the trend of spinal tuberculosis research and compare the contribution of research from different countries and authors. METHODS: Spinal tuberculosis-related publications from 1994 to 2015 were retrieved from the Web of Science database. Excel 2013, GraphPad Prism 5, and VOSviewer software were used to analyze the search results for number of publications, cited frequency, H-index, and country contributions. RESULTS: A total of 1558 papers were identified and were cited 16,152 times as of January 25, 2016. The United States accounted for 15.1% of the articles, 22.3% of the citations, and the highest H-index (33). China ranked third in total number of articles, fifth in citation frequency (815), and ranked seventh in H-index (13). The journal Spine (IF 2.297) had the highest number of publications. The author Jain A.K. has published the most papers in this field (20). The article titled “Tuberculosis of the spine: Controversies and a new challenge” was the most popular article and cited a total of 1138 times. The keyword “disease” was mentioned the most for 118 times and the word “bone fusion” was the latest hotspot by 2015. CONCLUSION: Literature growth in spinal tuberculosis is slowly expanding. Although publications from China are increasing, the quality of the articles still requires improvements. Meanwhile, the United States continues to be the largest contributor in the field of spinal tuberculosis. According to our bibliometric study, bone fusion may be an emerging topic within spinal tuberculosis research and is something that should be closely observed. Wolters Kluwer Health 2016-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5044914/ /pubmed/27661044 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000004923 Text en Copyright © 2016 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives License 4.0, which allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to the author. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
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Wang, Yiran
Wang, Qijin
Zhu, Rongbo
Yang, Changwei
Chen, Ziqiang
Bai, Yushu
Li, Ming
Zhai, Xiao
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title_fullStr Trends of spinal tuberculosis research (1994–2015): A bibliometric study
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title_short Trends of spinal tuberculosis research (1994–2015): A bibliometric study
title_sort trends of spinal tuberculosis research (1994–2015): a bibliometric study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5044914/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27661044
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000004923
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