Key result
A bibliometric analysis of the 100 most cited emergency abdominal surgery papers found a median of 131 citations, with vascular surgery, risk assessment, and GI surgery comprising 59% of the focus.
Vascular surgery, risk assessment, and gastrointestinal surgery are the most highly cited topics in emergency abdominal surgery literature.
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Ellul et al. (2016) studied Emergency Abdominal Surgery (n=100). Bibliometric analysis was evaluated on Citation number. A bibliometric analysis of the 100 most cited emergency abdominal surgery papers found a median of 131 citations, with vascular surgery, risk assessment, and GI surgery comprising 59% of the focus.
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