Identifying historical roots in paediatric echocardiography using RPYS

TL;DR

This study applies Reference Publication Year Spectrography (RPYS) to identify influential historical papers in paediatric echocardiography, a field lacking bibliometric analysis, revealing 35 key publications and validating the method's effectiveness.

Contribution

It is the first bibliometric analysis of paediatric echocardiography using RPYS, identifying influential papers and demonstrating the method's validity in this medical field.

Findings

35 influential papers identified

RPYS and CRE tool validated successfully

Field-specific bibliometric insights obtained

Abstract

Echocardiography is a non-invasive diagnostic tool which can be performed on children of all ages including foetuses and new-borns, due to the fact that no radiation is involved. No historical bibliometric study or influential papers in paediatric echocardiography has been performed yet, so our study was aimed to close this gap. References Publication Years Spectrography (RPYS), more precisely CitedReferenceExplorer (CRE) software tool was employed to achieve this aim. We identified 35 influential papers and validation showed that both, the RPYS method and CRE tool performed satisfactorily.