Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2012, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (13): 2389-2398.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-8225.2012.13.026

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Research of hip replacement: Literature search and analysis based on Scopus database within 5 years

Yao Jin, Zhao Yun, Zhong Cong-li   

  1. Department of Orthopedics, Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin Academy of Chinese Traditional Medicine, Tianjin  300120, China
  • Received:2012-01-20 Revised:2012-02-28 Online:2012-03-25 Published:2012-03-25
  • About author:Yao Jin, Associate chief physician, Department of Orthopedics, Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin Academy of Chinese Traditional Medicine, Tianjin 300120, China yaojin007@sohu.com

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Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Hip replacement has been confirmed to be a reliable treatment for patients with hip diseases. The main outcomes of hip replacement are to relieve joint pain, correction of deformity and restoration and improvement of the movement function of the joint.
OBJECTIVE: To provide the valuable bibliometric analytical data in hip replacement field.
DESIGN: Bibliometric data analysis based on Scopus database within 5 years.
DATA RETRIEVAL: ①A search of related literatures was performed in Scopus database using the key words of “hip arthroplasty or hip replacement, femoral head necrosis, femoral neck fracture and rheumatoid arthritis”. ②The data were analyzed. ③The data were output into pictures and tables to describe the results.
SELECTION CRITERIA: Original researches, reviews and conference proceedings were selected. Letters, editorials, proofreading, essays, short messaging and unpublished articles were excluded.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASUREMENTS: ①Numbers of the literatures; ②Publication year of the documents; ③Distribution of the countries; ④Distribution of the institutions; ⑤Document types; ⑥Analysis of source journals; ⑦Analysis of citation frequency; ⑧Patents information.
RESULTS: The literatures associated with hip replacement in Scopus database from January 2007 to December 2011 were mainly related to femoral neck fracture, and followed by the femoral head necrosis and rheumatoid arthritis. The patents were mainly related to femoral head necrosis. The number of papers was gradually increasing. The USA published the most documents related to these three types of diseases, and the numbers were 58, 142 and 91 respectively. The Journal of Arthroplasty published the most papers, and the numbers were 47, 58 and 40 respectively. China had an important position in these fields and its numbers of literature were 42, 40 and 10, respectively. 
CONCLUSION: Hip replacement used in femoral head necrosis and femoral neck fracture is the hot spot in recent years. Researches of China in this field are gradually mature and have an important position, and China is important in the number of literature in international database.

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