Global trends and prospects in health economics of robotic surgery: A bibliometric analysis

Abstract

Background: Over ten million robotic surgeries have been performed. However, the cost and benefit of robotic surgery need to be evaluated to help hospitals, surgeons, patients, and payers make proper choices, making a health economic analysis necessary. We revealed the bibliometric profile in the field of health economics of robotic surgery to prompt research development and guide future studies. Materials and Methods: The Web of Science Core Collection scientific database was searched for documents indexed from 2003 to December 31, 2022. Document types, years, authors, countries, institutions, journal sources, references, and keywords were analyzed and visualized using the Bibliometrix package, WPS Office software, Microsoft PowerPoint 2019, VOSviewer software (version 1.6.18), ggplot2, and Scimago Graphica. Results: The development of the health economics of robotic surgery can be divided into three phases: slow growing (2003-2009), developing (2010-2018), and fast-developing (2019-2022). HU JC and CHANG SL were the most active and influential authors, respectively. The USA produced the most documents, followed by China, and Italy. Korea had the highest number of citations per document. SURGICAL ENDOSCOPY AND OTHER INTERVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES accepted most documents, whereas ANNALS OF SURGERY, EUROPEAN UROLOGY, and JOURNAL OF MINIMALLY INVASIVE GYNECOLOGY had the highest number of citations per document. The JOURNAL OF ROBOTIC SURGERY is promising. The most cited document in this field is New Technology and Health Care Costs - The Case of Robot-Assisted Surgery in 2010. The proportion of documents on urology is decreasing, while documents in the field of arthrology are emerging and flourishing. Conclusion: Research on the health economics of robotic surgery has been unbalanced. Areas awaiting exploration have been identified. Collaboration between scholars and coverage with provisions for evidence development by the government is needed to learn more comprehensively about the health economics of robotic surgery.

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