Evolution and Hotspots in Autologous Ear Reconstruction: A Bibliometric Analysis of the 100 Most-cited Studies
Charbel G. Saad, Laurentia Fidella Averina Setia Santoso, Rola Mahdi, Soumiya Nadar, Thenuli Tamasha Jayamaha Hitihamilage, Nancy Emmanuel, Juan Pablo Menendez, Gregory Nicolas · 2026
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Charbel G Saad and co-authors chart the most-cited work on rebuilding ears from a patient's own tissue. The craft grew from carving rib cartilage into ear frames toward lab-grown and printed tissue. No map of the field existed that kept the clinical work apart from the young tissue-engineering scene, so the team sorted the hundred most-cited studies from a Scopus search.
The set spans 1971 to 2023, and most papers were clinical. Surgical technique led overall but shrank from the older half to the newer, while tissue engineering nearly doubled its share. The single most-cited paper is Nagata's 1993 account of a two-stage, three-dimensional cartilage framework. Maps of coauthors and keywords round out the picture of where the field is heading.
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| CREATOR | Charbel G. Saad, Laurentia Fidella Averina Setia Santoso, Rola Mahdi, Soumiya Nadar, Thenuli Tamasha Jayamaha Hitihamilage, Nancy Emmanuel, Juan Pablo Menendez, Gregory Nicolas |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |