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Background and Aims A bibliometric approach using network analytical methods was applied to explore the research trends on anesthesia for hip fractures.
Methods Publications related to anesthesia for hip fractures from 2013 to 2023 were retrieved from the Web of Science. The keywords were ‘Anesthesia and hip fracture’, ‘Anesthesia in hip fracture’, ‘Fascia Iliaca Block’, Fascia Iliaca Compartment Block’, and ‘Pericapsular Nerve Group Block’. The extracted records were analyzed in terms of publication year, research area, journal title, country, organization, authors, and keywords. The research trends on anesthesia for hip fractures were visualized using the VOSviewer program.
Results Analyses of 1022 articles revealed that total number of publications has continually increased over the last decade (figure 1). The country producing the most articles was the US, followed by China, Turkey, England, Canada, and India (table 1). It was seen that most articles were published in Medicine, Cureus Journal of Medical Science, Journal of Orthopaedıc Trauma, Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (table 1). A network analysis based on the cooccurrence of keywords revealed the following two major study designs: clinical study and research methodology. It was determined that there was an increase in the number of studies on anesthesia in hip fractures (figure 2). The most used keywords were hip fracture, pain, anesthesia, analgesia, nerve bloc, fascia iliaca compartment bloc, pericapsular nerve group bloc, fascia iliaca bloc, and femoral nerve bloc.
Publication years of the articles
Analysis of the clusters of keywords
Conclusions This study examined the research trends on anesthesia in hip fractures using bibliometric methods. Findings provide useful guidelines for researchers in searching for relevant topics.