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ReviewJournal of experimental orthopaedics2025

Artificial intelligence-driven analysis identifies arthroscopic shoulder surgery, meniscus injury and treatment, and total knee arthroplasty design biomechanics as the most commonly published topics in

Henry Baird, Prudhvi Kodali, Mauricio Gallegos, William Newton, Sarah Jenkins, Harris Slone, Michael Pullen

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Review in Journal of experimental orthopaedics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Henry BairdDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery University of Virginia Health System Charlottesville Virginia USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4756-5530
Prudhvi KodaliCollege of Medicine Medical University of South Carolina Charleston South Carolina USA.
Mauricio GallegosCollege of Medicine Medical University of South Carolina Charleston South Carolina USA.
William NewtonDepartment of Orthopaedics and Physical Medicine Medical University of South Carolina Charleston South Carolina USA.
Sarah JenkinsDepartment of Orthopaedics and Physical Medicine Medical University of South Carolina Charleston South Carolina USA.
Harris SloneDepartment of Orthopaedics and Physical Medicine Medical University of South Carolina Charleston South Carolina USA.
Michael PullenDepartment of Orthopaedics and Physical Medicine Medical University of South Carolina Charleston South Carolina USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose: To utilize advanced topic modelling through the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers Topic (BERTopic) model to investigate research topics in the journal Methods: Titles and abstracts from 7886 original research articles and reviews published in Results: The BERTopic model organized 7410 publications into 33 distinct topics. From 1993 to 2023, the most frequently reported topics included arthroscopic shoulder surgery, meniscus injury and treatment, and total knee arthroplasty (TKA): design biomechanics. Between 2020 and 2023, arthroscopic shoulder surgery, TKA: design biomechanics, and TKA: alignment & kinematics were identified as increasingly popular ('hot') topics. Conversely, ankle instability, non-anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) knee ligament injuries, and ACL reconstruction: bone tunnels showed declining popularity ('cold' topics). Conclusions: This study demonstrates the efficacy of the BERTopic model in analyzing large textual data sets to identify relevant research patterns within orthopaedic literature. The results highlight BERTopic's ability to summarize thousands of articles from Level of Evidence: Level IV, systematic review.

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artificial intelligenceorthopaedic researchpublicationstopicstrends

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PMID40655248
PMCPMC12255955

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