A Scientometric Analysis of 20 Years of Research on Breast Reconstruction Surgery: a Guide for Research Design and Journal Selection

Overview

Journal Arch Plast Surg

Specialty General Surgery

Date 2013 Mar 28

PMID 23532777

Citations 14

Authors

Mehrdad Moghimi

Mehdi Fathi

Ali Marashi

Freshteh Kamani

Gholamreza Habibi

Armin Hirbod-Mobarakeh

Marjan Ghaemi

Mahdi Hosseinian-Sarajehlou

Affiliations

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Abstract

Background: Breast reconstruction refers to the rebuilding of a woman's breast using autologous tissue or prosthetic material to form a natural-looking breast. It is increasingly offered to women undergoing mastectomy for breast cancer. However, there is no systematic analysis available for the expanding area of research on breast reconstruction.

Methods: A bibliometric method was used to obtain a view of the scientific production about breast reconstruction by data extracted from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). Specific parameters were retrieved from the ISI. Articles about breast reconstruction were analyzed to obtain a view of the topic's structure, history, and document relationships using HistCite software. Trends in the most influential publications and authors were analyzed.

Results: The number of articles was constantly increasing. Most highly cited articles described the methods of flap construction in the surgery. Other highly cited articles discussed the psychological or emotional aspects of breast reconstruction, skin sparing mastectomy, and breast reconstruction in the irradiated breast.

Conclusions: This was the first breast reconstruction scientometric analysis, representing the characteristics of papers and the trends of scientific production. A constant increase in the number of breast reconstruction papers and also the increasing number of citations shows that there is an increasing interest in this area of medical science. It seems that most of the research in this field is focused on the technical aspects of surgery.

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