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Is "Top 100 most cited" reliable to identify influential articles? Example of OTSR

Patrick Devos1, Gaelle Maroteau2, Julien Dartus3

  • 1Univ. Lille, CHU Lille, Lillometrics, F-59000 Lille, France.

Orthopaedics & Traumatology, Surgery & Research : OTSR
|July 16, 2026
PubMed
Summary

Identifying high-impact research requires normalized citation indicators. This study found that normalizing by publication year and field offers a more reliable method than simple citation counts for pinpointing influential articles.

Keywords:
Agreement analysis (Cohen’s kappa/raw vs normalized rankings)French orthopaedic influence (French authors/global highly cited articles)Influential OTSR topics (PROMs/Meniscus/Masquelet technique)Normalized citation metrics (CNCI/percentile ranking/field-year adjustment)OTSR bibliometrics (Web of Science/InCites/Clarivate Analytics/Impact Factor)Top-cited bias (raw citation count/cumulative citation effect/older article advantage)

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