The 100 Most Cited Articles in Early Onset Scoliosis: A Bibliometric Analysis

Purpose: Early onset scoliosis is the onset of scoliosis in children, under the age of 10, irrespective of aetiology. There is a role for both conservative and surgical treatment. The purpose of this study was to identify the 100 most cited articles relating to early onset scoliosis. This is the first bibliometric analysis Methods: The Dimensions database was utilised to search for a selection of keywords related to early onset scoliosis. The 100 most highly cited articles were selected from high impact journals and several attributes including number of citations, year of publication and publishing journals were analysed Results: The highest cited article was cited 569 times whilst the lowest cited 44 times. The articles were published from 1954 to 2020 with the majority being published after 2000. The leading journal for publication of these articles was the Journal of Paediatric Orthopaedics with 23 articles, followed by Spine with 22. The articles, corresponding authors and number of citations are demonstrated in Table 1. Conclusions: Our study is a bibliometric analysis of the 100 most cited articles in early onset scoliosis and demonstrates the key scientific contributions to this area of spinal surgery.