Consolidated Response to Correspondence on “A bibliometric analysis of brachial plexus injury from 1980 to 2022”

We greatly appreciate the thoughtful and constructive comments raised by Dr. Yuh-Shan Ho and Dr. Maria Christidis regarding our bibliometric study published in Heliyon (2024; 10 (4):e26175). Their correspondence addresses important methodological aspects, including data collection timing, search strategy design, and data processing reproducibility. We acknowledge the value of rigorous methodology in bibliometric research and thank the authors for their careful review. Below, we clarify the rationale for our study design and confirm the validity of our main conclusions.