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Repair of inguinal hernia is one of the most common operations in general surgery. The aim of the current study is to analyze the scientific studies in the field of laparoscopic inguinal hernias by ISI Web of Knowledge-Web of Science (WoS) software by using keywords. Overall,2832 papers were found related to laparoscopic inguinal hernia. The first publication and the first citation were from Australia in 1991. The biggest scientific contribution was from the USA (n = 650), the types of publications dominantly were articles (76.80%), most of publications were in English (93.18%), and the most contributed author was Bittner R (n = 63) from Germany. Our study revealed that scientific studies on this field will probably continue to rise in parallel with this increasing interest.
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Yilmaz, F., Bas, K. Analysis of Publications on Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Surgery. Indian J Surg (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12262-020-02186-y
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