Guoxin Fan1, Zhi Zhou1, Hailong Zhang1, Xin Gu1, Guangfei Gu1, Xiaofei Guan1, Yunshan Fan1, Shisheng He2. 1. Orthopedic Department, Shanghai Tenth People's Hostipal, Tongji University School of Medicine, China. 2. Orthopedic Department, Shanghai Tenth People's Hostipal, Tongji University School of Medicine, China. Electronic address: tjhss7418@foxmail.com.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Robot-assisted surgery operations are being performed more frequently in the world these years. In order to have a macroscopic view of publication activities about robotic surgery, the first bibliometric analysis was conducted to investigate the publication distributions of robotic surgery. METHODS: The original articles about robotic surgery were extracted from the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) on Web of Science and analyzed concerning their distributions. We also explored the potential correlations between publications of different countries and their Gross Domestic Product (GDP). RESULTS: The total number of original articles retrieved from SCI-E was 3362 from 1994 to 2015. The number of original articles published in the last decade has a burgeoning increase of 572.87% compared with that published in the former decade. The leading country was USA who have published 1402 pieces of articles (41.701%), followed by Germany with 342 (10.173%). The journal published the highest number of original articles was Journal of Endourology with 237 (7.049%), followed by Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques (188, 5.592%). There was strong correlations between publication numbers and GDP of different countries (r(2) = 0.889, p < 0.001). In the different medical fields, urology has the highest number of articles (n = 878, 26.007%). DISCUSSIONS: The macroscopic view of research activities has the potential to guide future trend in the field of robotic surgery. CONCLUSIONS: There is a skyrocket trend of robotic surgery in medical research over the last two decades, and countries with high GDP tend to make more contributions to the medical field of robotic surgery.
INTRODUCTION: Robot-assisted surgery operations are being performed more frequently in the world these years. In order to have a macroscopic view of publication activities about robotic surgery, the first bibliometric analysis was conducted to investigate the publication distributions of robotic surgery. METHODS: The original articles about robotic surgery were extracted from the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) on Web of Science and analyzed concerning their distributions. We also explored the potential correlations between publications of different countries and their Gross Domestic Product (GDP). RESULTS: The total number of original articles retrieved from SCI-E was 3362 from 1994 to 2015. The number of original articles published in the last decade has a burgeoning increase of 572.87% compared with that published in the former decade. The leading country was USA who have published 1402 pieces of articles (41.701%), followed by Germany with 342 (10.173%). The journal published the highest number of original articles was Journal of Endourology with 237 (7.049%), followed by Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques (188, 5.592%). There was strong correlations between publication numbers and GDP of different countries (r(2) = 0.889, p < 0.001). In the different medical fields, urology has the highest number of articles (n = 878, 26.007%). DISCUSSIONS: The macroscopic view of research activities has the potential to guide future trend in the field of robotic surgery. CONCLUSIONS: There is a skyrocket trend of robotic surgery in medical research over the last two decades, and countries with high GDP tend to make more contributions to the medical field of robotic surgery.
Authors: Thomas Blanc; Ugo Pinar; Julien Anract; Jalal Assouad; François Audenet; Bruno Borghese; Alexandre De La Taille; Alaa El Ghoneimi; Pierre Mongiat-Artus; Pierre Mordant; Christophe Penna; Morgan Roupret Journal: J Robot Surg Date: 2021-01-28
Authors: Vittorio Stumpo; Victor E Staartjes; Anita M Klukowska; Aida Kafai Golahmadi; Pravesh S Gadjradj; Marc L Schröder; Anand Veeravagu; Martin N Stienen; Carlo Serra; Luca Regli Journal: Neurosurg Rev Date: 2020-11-30 Impact factor: 3.042