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ArticleJournal of hand and microsurgery2025

Vascularised Composite Allotransplantation - A guide to optimal dissemination of scientific outputs.

C M Hehir, G P Dowling, G G Calpin, M O'Connor, L Kelly, C S Honeyman, H L Stark, R T Dolan

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Article in Journal of hand and microsurgery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

C M HehirDepartment of Surgery, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland.
G P DowlingDepartment of Surgery, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland.
G G CalpinDepartment of Surgery, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland.
M O'ConnorSchool of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
L KellySchool of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
C S HoneymanDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, UK.
H L StarkTransplant Research and Immunology Group (TRIG), Nuffield Department of Surgical Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
R T DolanTissue Engineering Research Group (TERG), Department of Anatomy and Regenerative Medicine, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose: The impact of academic research is not just important within the clinical domain but within society as a whole. Altmetric Attention Score (AAS) offers a means of assessing how scholarly outputs are interacted with online. Vascularised Composite Allotransplantation (VCA) is a modern but rapidly evolving topic which encompasses a broad range of complex and clinically significant surgical interventions. Primarily VCA is utilised in the reconstruction of complex, composite tissue defects, including limb and face transplantation. There is also a growing interest in the role of VCA as an early means of real-time immuno-monitoring, in sentinel skin flap transplant (SSF). Materials & methods: In July 2024, a search was conducted using the Results: The Top 100 (T100) performing articles relating to VCA displayed a mean Altmetric Attention Score (AAS) of 3.31. All T100 papers were published in the English language. Sixty percent (n = 60) of T100 papers were published in Q1 Journals. News outlet mentions (r = 6.95), blog mentions (r = 6.20), and Conclusion: Altmetric Scores offer a means of appraising the impact of research outputs in both academic and societal domains. Such modern metrics are useful in evolving topics such as VCA as AAS is not dependent on citation counts. Publishing of outputs in high quartile, open access journals with timely utilisation of news and social media outlets should be utilised by researchers aiming to maximise dissemination of research outputs in the field of VCA.

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Altmetric analysisSentinel skin flapTransplantVascularised composite allograft

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PMID39876955
PMCPMC11770220

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