Abstract:

BACKGROUND: The ankle fracture is a common trauma, which the incidence rate is in the first intra-articular fracture with the aging population and complex transport.
OBJECTIVE: To multivariately analyze the literature on the ankle injury through Scopus database and its analysis tool.
DESIGN: Bibliometric analysis.
DATA RETRIEVAL: A retrieval was performed for the literature of the ankle injury, including ankle joint or ankle, injury or defect or trauma, fracture, screw, intramedullary nail or nail, plate or steel plate or steel sheet during 2007-01 and 2011-12 in Scopus database. The retrieval results were analyzed, and the trends were described in words and graphics.
SELECTIVE CRITERIA: Articles on the ankle injury including the following types: (1)Peer-reviewed original paper; (2)Reviews; (3)Conference papers; (4)Notes; (5)Letters; (6)Short survey; (7)Articles in press; (8)Editorials. Exclusive criteria were included (1)Articles unrelated to the study of the ankle injury. (2)Articles published before 2007. (3)Articles which were not published on journals. (4)Articles which need to be retrieved by phone or manually.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASUREMENTS: The literatures were analyzed by type of articles, publication year, national distribution, institutional information, journal distribution, citation frequency and authors.
RESULTS: A total of 600 literatures on the ankle injury were retrieved in Scopus database, in which most of paper were published as original articles. The overall number of literature had an upward trend from 2007 to 2011. Foot and Ankle International published most papers in this field (n=85, 14.17%).
CONCLUSION: This paper provides a valuable reference for researchers to understand the overview and present situation of this field in order to set further research.