Abstract

A chronological survey of papers was conducted to investigate the journal titled Journal of Orthopaedic Research in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) between 1991 and 2018. Performances of countries, institutes, and authors, including total, single, collaborative, first author, and corresponding author publications were analyzed. Citation indicators including the total number of citations since publication to the end of 2018, the number of citations in 2018, total number of citations in the publication year, total number of citations per number of years, and citations per publication were applied to evaluate highly cited articles. Comparison of the articles contributing most to impact factor and highly cited articles were discussed. In addition, journal impact factor contributors and journal impact factor contributing articles were presented.

Keywords: Bibliometric; SCI-EXPANDED; Citations per publication; Journal impact factor contributing articles; JIF contributors