. Hooman Shariatzadeh; . Mohsen Motaleb; . Farhad Soltani; . Farid Najd Mazhar; . Ali Behmanesh; . Meysam Fathi; . Mohsen Barkam; . Seyed Jafar Ehsanzadeh; Roshanak Shams .
Volume 12, Issue 11 , December 2022, , Pages 1-8
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BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to perform a bibliometric analysis to assess the numberof articles published by Iranian researchers in the field of hand and microsurgery over ...
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BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to perform a bibliometric analysis to assess the numberof articles published by Iranian researchers in the field of hand and microsurgery over the last fourdecades.MATERIALS AND METHODS: An online search was conducted using 685 keywords in the abstract/title sections of articles, including carpal tunnel syndrome, wrist fractures, nerve injury and repair,skin flap and graft in the hand, congenital disorders in the hand and forearm, tumor in the handand wrist, and infection in the hand and wrist. From February 1976 to May 2021, EndNote softwareversion 8.1 was used to search articles in PubMed and Scopus databases. Articles in which at leastone of the authors was affiliated with Iran were chosen. The name of the original institution, field ofstudy, total number of publications, type of study, collaboration rate of Iranian hand surgeons foreach year, and annual sharing of Iranian articles in journals with the highest cite scores in the fieldof hand and microsurgery were all examined in the present study.RESULTS: The total number of publications in the field of hand and microsurgery was 632 (an averageof 11 papers per year). Most of the Iranian hand and microsurgery papers were from the capitalcity, Tehran (38.09%). There was an increasing trend in the number of publications over the years,most which were about carpal tunnel syndrome (21.5%), tendon (9.8%), and nerve (9.6%). In total,59.6% were descriptive articles, whereas the proportion of clinical trials was relatively small (22.3%).CONCLUSIONS: Iranian hand microsurgeons have continued to increase their scientific output inhand microsurgery and related fields over the last 40 years. The quality of Iranian hand microsurgeons’scientific output, both within and outside their discipline, has greatly improved; however, they stillhave a long way to go before becoming a hub of science.LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: IV, retrospective study without control group.
