Advancesinplasticandcosmeticsurgeryat homeandabroad-Abibliometricanalysis

BACKGROUND: Plastic and cosmetic surgery is a new branch deriving from plastic surgery. Although several studies con - cerning advances in plastic and cosmetic surg - eries have been reported, most literatures fo - cus on specific diagnosis and treatment tech - nology, but not the overall progress. AIM: We attempt to use bibiometric analysis to investigate main research hotspots at home and abroad, outstanding researchers and excel - lent institutions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We retrieved relevant literatures published between 2007 and 2011 in five foreign and four Chinese jour - nals. gCLUTO was used to perform double clustering analysis. Price's Law was used to analyze authors with high yield. Literature pro - filing was performed to construct author-key - word and institution-keyword matrix to com - prehend research feature of high yield authors and research institutions. RESULTS: A total of 67 and 94 high-frequen - cy words were obtained from English and Chi - nese journals. Clustering analysis indicated that research hotspots at home and abroad mainly included side-effects of augmentation mammoplasty and its therapy, eyelid plastic surgery, cartilage transplantation and/or carti - lage suture in nose plastic surgery, plastic surgery in cheilopalatognathus and nasal de - formity, construction of surgical flaps, and fa - cial plastic cosmetology. In addition, several authors and institutions with high yield also had been identified and they might have differ - ent research features. CONCLUSIONS: We investigate advances, hotspots, experts and their institutions in plas - tic and cosmetic surgery in recent five years at home and abroad, which would provide some research directions for professionals of plastic and cosmetic surgery.