Table 1.

Frequency of Commonly Used Terms in ACL Repair Publications (top 46 terms) ^a

Term	Occurrence	Relevance	Term	Occurrence	Relevance
Cruciate ligament	382	0.02	Degree	39	0.31
Healing	119	0.55	Study design	39	0.29
Score	114	0.65	Suture repair	39	0.86
Tear	99	0.63	Arthroscopy	37	0.65
Week	83	0.44	Cell	37	2.62
Effect	78	0.91	Examination	37	0.56
Tissue	77	0.55	Response	37	1.95
Primary ACL repair	76	0.79	ACL tear	35	0.87
Use	75	0.41	Interest	35	0.29
Lysholm	56	1.47	Control	33	0.45
Scaffold	51	1.25	Clinical outcome	33	0.93
Fixation	49	0.35	Development	33	0.77
Change	48	0.29	Flexion	33	0.5
Instability	48	0.6	Lachman test	33	1.07
Mean	44	1.19	Posterior cruciate ligament	33	0.73
Addition	43	0.45	Dog	32	0.77
Pain	43	0.56	Approach	31	0.59
Literature	42	0.35	Article	31	0.26
Fracture	41	0.58	Case series	31	1.03
Hypothesis	41	0.48	Tegner	31	1.36
IKDC	41	1.53	Proximal tear	30	1.3
Load	41	1.67	Role	30	0.24
Management	40	0.4	DIS	29	0.55

^a The occurrence attribute indicates the number of articles in which the term occurs at least once. Terms with a high relevance score tend to represent specific topics covered by the text data, while terms with a low relevance score tend to be of a general nature and not representative of any specific topic. ACL, anterior cruciate ligament; DIS, dynamic intraligamentary stabilization; IKDC, International Knee Documentation Committee.