Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Ankle arthroscopy has become an important treatment tool in the management of chronic and post-traumatic ankle problems. In the literature, there are numerous publications on the subject of ankle arthroscopy, including case series, systematic reviews, and prospective cohort studies. The objective of this bibliometric study was to determine the most cited 50 articles on ankle arthroscopy and to analyse characteristics of these studies.

METHODS

The articles published between 1985 and 2019 were screened by two orthopedists via the Web of Science v. 5.11 academic search engine with ‘Ankle Arthroscopy’ term as of 03/21/2019. Titles, first authors, years of publication of the articles, number of citations, journal of publication, subtype, country of origin and institute of the study were recorded

RESULTS

The number of total citations was 5378 for all 50 articles. The mean citation number of all articles was found as 107.6±45.6 (min-max: 64-240). The articles belonged to 13 different countries of origin. One article was published in 1980s, 13 articles in 1990s, 30 in 2000s, and 6 in 2010s.

DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION

The articles on ankle arthroscopy were predominantly case series, and according to our bibliometric analysis we believe that further comparative randomized controlled studies are needed to be conducted on ankle arthroscopy.