Defining a specialty through its literature: A bibliometric analysis of acute care surgery 2005 to 2020
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Aucar, John A.; Veatch, Jessica M.; Kiscaden, Elizabeth
- Source
- Surgery Open Science; October 2022, Vol. 10 Issue: 1 p43-49, 7p
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- Language
- ISSN
- 25898450
Acute care surgery (ACS) has grown and evolved since it was conceived in 2005. However, ACS is not recognized in the National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Heading thesaurus. This article uses bibliometrics to help define an identity for ACS as a subspecialty of surgery and argue for its addition to the Medical Subject Heading thesaurus.