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ReviewWorld journal of surgery2022

A Bibliometric Analysis of Robotic Surgery From 2001 to 2021.

A Musbahi, C B Rao, A Immanuel

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Review in World journal of surgery, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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43citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
7.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

43 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

A MusbahiNorthern Oesophago-Gastric Unit, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, UK.
C B RaoUCL Medical School, University College London, 74 Huntley St, Bloomsbury, London, WC1E 6DE, UK. chirag.rao.16@ucl.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9185-4604
A ImmanuelNorthern Oesophago-Gastric Unit, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, UK.
Royal Victoria Infirmary · GBUniversity College London · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionBibliometric analyses are a method of evaluating the quality of research output in a certain domain. Robotic surgery has made vast leaps during the past 20 years and this paper aimed to assess some of the main areas of research using this method.

methodsA search was undertaken for documents published between 2001 and 2021 from the World of Science database, using the keywords 'robotic surgery', 'robotic assisted surgery' and 'robotic-assisted surgery. Results were compared using numerous bibliometric methodologies, and stratified by source-specific metrics, author-specific metrics and country-specific metrics.

resultsThe search yielded 3839 documents, from 879 different sources. Only 2% of sources were found to be within Bradford's Zone 1 of research and the most relevant sources were from the field of urology. The Journal of Urology and Surgical Endoscopy and other Techniques ranked highly among metrics such as H, G, M index and total citations. The top-rated authors had a H index of 15 in the field of robotic surgery and the total citations reached a peak at 1342. The USA, Japan and Italy were the most productive nations and increased collaborative research is leading to a greater number of multiple-centre publications.

conclusionResearch into robotic surgery is still in its infancy with further reviews of the literature and greater output through large randomised controlled trials in multiple centres through collaborative research needed.

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Robotic Surgical ProceduresUrologyBibliometricsDatabases, FactualHumansPublications

Identifiers

PMID35258666
PMCPMC9054892
OpenAlexW4220748841

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