TY - EJOU AU - Niculescu, N. Marius AU - Bataga, B. Tiberiu AU - Anusca, A. Dan AU - Sava, S. Manuel AU - Gheorghiu, G. Nicolae TI - Analysis of Romanian National Publication Output in Orthopedics T2 - Timisoara Medical Journal PY - 2021 VL - 2021 IS - 1 SN - 1583-526X AB - (1) Aim: To analyze the publication output from Romania in the Web of Science (WoS) category of orthopedics. (2) Methods: We have used the WoS Core Collection Advanced Search between 2009 and 2018. (3) Results: Under the WoS Orthopedics category in SCI-Expanded, we found 72 articles with Romania as the country of origin, representing 0.105% of the total Romanian research output. Using journal rankings, distribution by quartile was: 1–12 (16.7%), 2–33 (45.8%), 3–9 (12.5%) and 4–18 (25%). Average citations in total and per year by category were: 1–22.6 range 1–91 (2.56), 2–8.85 range 0–30 (1.64), 3–8.44 range 1–30 (1.25), and 4–4.11 range 0–16 (0.74). Thirteen articles published from 1986 to 2008 were excluded by limiting the timespan. When searching for all document types and all WoS core collection citation indexes, we found 107 items; the total citations increased from 714 to 806. (4) Conclusions: Orthopedic publications from Romania have increased in the last decade, but are still low compared to category averages; however, the bibliometric qualitative distribution and patterns mostly resemble that of comparators. KW - bibliometrics KW - databases KW - factual KW - evidence-based medicine/standards KW - Romania KW - journal impact factor KW - orthopedics KW - qualitative research KW - traumatology DO - 10.35995/tmj20210104