A bibliometric analysis of classic publications in web of science category of orthopedics

Table 5 Six high impact sleeping beauties in Web of Science category of orthopedics

C ₂₀₁₆	TC ₂₀₁₆	L _D	L _LD	L _H	References
78	1331	17	12	36	Outerbridge (1961) [21]
85	1440	22	22	12	Delee and Charnley (1976) [36]
110	1771	19	18	11	Gruen et al. (1979) [32]
159	1674	13	13	14	Tegner and Lysholm (1985) [34]
107	2058	11	11	10	Constant and Murley (1987) [27]
161	2161	9	7	9	Insall et al. (1989) [25]

TC₂₀₁₆ the total citations since publication to the end of the last year (2016), C₂₀₁₆ the total citations in recent year (the last year 2016) only, L_D length of the deep sleep (year), L_LD length of the less deep sleep (year), L_H years to reach 100 annual citations after the less deep sleep (year)

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