Research Hotspots and Trends Analysis of Patellar Instability: A Bibliometric Analysis from 2001 to 2021.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patellar instability is a common multifactorial disease in orthopedics, which seriously affects the quality of life. Because of the unified pathogeny, diagnosis and treatment, patellar instability has gradually attracted the interest of more scholars these years, resulting in an explosive growth in the research output. This study aims to summarize the knowledge structure and development trend in the field from the perspective of bibliometrics.

Methods

The data of articles and reviews on patellar instability was extracted from the Web of Science database. The Microsoft Excel, R-bibliometrix, CiteSpace, VOSviewer, Pajek software are comprehensively used to scientifically analyze the data quantitatively and qualitatively.

Results

Totally, 2,155 papers were ide

SUBMITTER: Zheng Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9149225 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature