Table 2

Median numbers of pages, citations and citations per page for all articles in the surgical journals of 2001 (n = 120).


Original articles
Reviews
p value*

Total
16452
631

Number of pages per article
5 (4–7)
8 (5–11)
p < 0.0001
Number of citations per article
1 (0–4)
2 (1–6)
p < 0.0001
Number of citations per article page
0.286 (0–0.667)
0.333 (0.083–0.707)
p = 0.013

*Mann-Whitney U-test

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