A bibliometric analysis of the Journal of Musculoskeletal Surgery and Research

Abstract

Objectives: The Journal of Musculoskeletal Surgery and Research (JMSR) is a relatively new publication focusing on research related to musculoskeletal surgery and related research. We aimed to analyze its bibliometrics to help the concerned community and JMSR’s audience, authors, and editorial team get to know the journal more in-depth. Methods: We performed a manual search of the JMSR’s publications for assessing various bibliometric parameters, including the type of published documents and their citation frequencies, authors with most papers, authors affiliations (national vs. international), and frequency distribution of keywords from the Journal’s inception in the mid-2017 through 2021. We used the Google scholar database and analyzed the data using Microsoft Excel VOS viewer software. Results: Two hundred and twenty-nine documents have been published from mid-2017 through 2021 in JMSR by 540 authors (458 males and 82 females), having a trend of the annual increment (R2 0.3684). There were 97 original articles published to date with a mean of 5.14 ± 4.20 articles in each issue. By the end of 2021, JMSR has received 192 citations from 197 citable papers out of 229 published documents from 2017 through 2021, with an average of 38.40 cites/year and 0.97 cites/paper, and an h–index of 6. We found 2.4 ± 1.5 (Range 1–6) institutions per article, with 110 (55.7%) being local institutes, whereas 85 (44.3%) were international institutes. The number of authors per paper ratio was 4.3 ± 1.7. Conclusion: JMSR is providing quality scholarship publications in orthopedics and musculoskeletal research, which could provide global insight pertaining to the field, to its viewers, authors, and editorial team.