Citation analysis of the 100 top-cited articles on discectomy via endoscopy since 2011 using alluvial diagrams: bibliometric analysis

Abstract

Keypoints An Alluvial diagram was drawn to display the network characteristics of T100PEID, which is novel and modern in the literature. The method of drawing the Alluvial demonstrated in detail with documents in supplemental digital contents can be applied to make bibliometric studies brief, concise, and powerful. The impact beam plot (IBP) is an additional visualization introduced in this study. The online IBP was demonstrated and worthy of future similar studies to highlight the most influential articles with a glance at a picture.

Keywords

• Bibliometric
• Citation analysis
• Medical subject heading
• Percutaneous endoscopic interlaminar discectomy
• Alluvial diagram
• Web of Science