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Published in: Aesthetic Plastic Surgery 1/2023

19-10-2022 | Fat Grafting | Review

A Bibliometric and Visualization Analysis on the Research of Fat Grafting from 1945 to 2021

Authors: Bo Li, CholSik Ri, JiaXin Mao, MuXin Zhao

Published in: Aesthetic Plastic Surgery | Issue 1/2023

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Abstract

Background

It is very important to generate a comprehensive assessment of the fat grafting field due to the rapid growth of scientific literature. The current study aimed to use bibliometric analysis to evaluate fat grafting research qualitatively and quantitatively and determine the research hotspots and trends in this field.

Methods

Publications on fat grafting research were extracted from the Web of Science core collection database. VOSviewer 1.6.18 was applied to perform the bibliometric analysis of these articles.

Results

A total of 2558 studies published by 594 different journals authored by 9097 researchers were contained in this study. In the co-authorship analysis, the bulk of the retrieved studies was conducted by the USA, followed by China, Italy and Japan, while the most productive institution, journal and author were Chinese Academy of Medicine Sciences, Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery and Klinger M, respectively. In the co-cited analysis, the most top cited author, journal, organization and country were Coleman Sr, Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery, New York University and the USA, respectively. The map of keywords occurrence revealed the most active research aspects were focused on “surgery,” “cell,” “breast reconstruction” and “survival” and the time overlay mapping showed that the most active research hotspots were “breast reconstruction” and “retention”.

Conclusions

The research hotspots include the following four aspects: aesthetic surgeries, cell-assisted lipotransfer, breast reconstruction and grafted fat survival. Breast fat grafting and volume retention may be trends in the future. We are willing to provide more beneficial data to contribute valuable research for the fat grafting through this study.

Level of Evidence III

This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.​springer.​com/​00266.
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Metadata
Title
A Bibliometric and Visualization Analysis on the Research of Fat Grafting from 1945 to 2021
Authors
Bo Li
CholSik Ri
JiaXin Mao
MuXin Zhao
Publication date
19-10-2022
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery / Issue 1/2023
Print ISSN: 0364-216X
Electronic ISSN: 1432-5241
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00266-022-03137-6

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