Top 5 countries.
| Rank | Country | Documents | Citations | Average citation/Publication |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinaa | 880 | 21,521 | 24.46 |
| 2 | USAb | 606 | 34,192 | 56.42 |
| 3 | United Kingdomc | 324 | 24,337 | 75.11 |
| 4 | Japan | 232 | 8,072 | 34.79 |
| 5 | Italyd | 225 | 12,454 | 55.35 |
aThe People’s Republic of China; bThe United States of America; cThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; dThe Republic of Italy.
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This work was supported by the Capital’s Funds for Health Improvement and Research (CFH 2024-2-40611), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (7242127), the National High Level Hospital Clinical Research Funding (2024-NHLHCRF-PYI-01), Innovative Development Project for Young Orthopedic Physicians of the Orthopedic Medicine Research Professional Committee of the Chinese Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine (GSKQNJJ-2023-007, 2023-HX-141), the China-Japan Friendship Hospital Horizontal Project/Spontaneous Research Funding (2022-HX-JC-7, 2024-HX-6), the Elite Medical Professionals project of China-Japan Friendship Hospital (No. ZRJY2021-GG12), and the Joint Project of BRC-BC (Biomedical Translational Engineering Research Center of BUCT-CJFH) (RZ2020-02). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, interpretation of data, writing of the manuscript, or the decision to submit the paper for publication.
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