Comments on: Yilmaz and Bas (2020) “A bibliometric analysis of pectoral nerve blocks,” Indian J. Surg., 82: 147-150

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Yilmaz and Bas recently published a paper in the Indian Journal of Surgery entitled “A bibliometric analysis of pectoral nerve blocks” [1]. Authors mentioned in the section Materials and Methods that “This research was conducted on January 27, 2019, by using the WoS software to analyze the pectoral nerve block publications included in SCI-E. We searched all papers in the field of pectoral nerve block between 1975 and January 27, 2019, using the key words of “pectoral nerve block,” “PECS I,” “PECS II,” “pecs block,” “PECS block,” “Pecs I,” “Pecs II,” “PECS 1,” “PECS 2,” and “modified pecs I block” in the topic search section of the software.” Yilmaz and Bas also mentioned in section Results that “Overall, 72 papers were published in pectoral nerve block and were included in the Science Citation Index Expanded between 1975 and 2019.” It is impossible to know the total number of publications in 2019 on January 27, 2019. …