With the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation recently celebrating its 75th anniversary, it is an opportune time to assess the impact and influence that physiatric articles and research have had on the field, as well as the greater scientific community. One useful metric of scientific impact is citation count, which is the most common method for analyzing the magnitude of scientific recognition of an individual article. This study presents 2 reading lists of influential physiatric academic journal articles drawn from the Web of Science index based on citation count. The first list contains the top 25 most-cited articles during the last 3 decades from the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and PM&R. The second list contains the top 10 articles in 20 different physiatric topical areas. This topical list was generated via an expanded search without limitation of time span or journal. This allowed for the identification of influential physiatric articles not found in the field’s 3 major publications from the United States. Although citation index is not a direct measure of quality or importance, it offers one form of quantitative assessment of scientific impact. This assessment contributes to the identification of trends, which illustrate the evolution of scope and focus of physiatry research. The lists of most-cited articles presented in this review can be used to provide historical context to physiatry’s existing body of research, direct future evidence-based research efforts, and help guide educators as they select resident reading lists or journal club materials.
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机译:随着美国物理医学与康复科学院最近庆祝其成立75周年,现在是评估物理文章和研究对该领域以及更广泛的科学界的影响的合适时机。科学影响力的一种有用度量是引文计数,这是分析单个文章的科学认可程度的最常用方法。这项研究提出了2份基于引用计数从Web of Science索引中抽取的有影响力的物理学学术期刊文章的阅读清单。第一份清单包含《美国物理医学与康复杂志》,《物理医学与康复杂志》和PM&R在过去30年中被引用次数最多的25篇文章。第二个列表包含20个不同的生理主题领域的前10名文章。该主题列表是通过扩展搜索生成的,没有时间跨度或日记的限制。这样可以识别在美国该领域的3种主要出版物中找不到的有影响力的生理学文章。尽管引文索引不是质量或重要性的直接量度,但它提供了一种对科学影响进行定量评估的形式。该评估有助于识别趋势,从而说明物理研究范围和重点的演变。该评论中引用最多的文章清单可用于为该机构现有的研究机构提供历史背景,指导未来基于证据的研究工作,并帮助指导教育工作者选择居民阅读清单或期刊俱乐部资料。
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