Department of Optometry and Vision, Faculty of Optics and Optometry, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; ISEC LISBOA - Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências, 1750-179 Lisboa, Portugal.
ISEC LISBOA - Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências, 1750-179 Lisboa, Portugal; Faculty of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Villaviciosa de Odón Madrid, Spain.
Cont Lens Anterior Eye. 2022 Feb;45(1):101527. doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2021.101527. Epub 2021 Oct 31.
Contact lenses can cause complications in 2/3 of the total population, but in most cases, they are mild and easy to manage. However, most of the studies are short-term. The aim of the study was to analyze the publications on the long-term effects of contact lens wear to understand the current research landscape through the analysis of dating networks as well as determining the different research areas and the most cited publications.
The Web of Science database was used to perform the publication search, looking for the terms "Long-term" AND "contact lens wear" within the period between 1977 and January 2021. The CitNetExplorer and CiteSpace software were then used to conduct the publication analysis. To obtain the graphics, the VOSviewer software was used.
A total of 721 publications were found with 2999 citations generated within the network. The year 2010 was singled out as a "key year", considering the number of publications that emerged in that year and increase in adaptations of contact lens worldwide. The most widely cited publication was "Effects of long-term extended contact lens wear on the human cornea", an article by Holden et al., which was published in 1985. By using the clustering function, we were able to establish three clusters that encompassed the different research areas within this field: morphological changes, the loss of corneal sensitivity, tear film characteristics and longitudinal changes in ocular physiology.
The main research topic in this field focuses on the morphological changes that take place in the corneal endothelial cell layer.
隐形眼镜会导致 2/3 的人群出现并发症，但在大多数情况下，这些并发症是轻微的，易于处理。然而，大多数研究都是短期的。本研究的目的是分析有关隐形眼镜佩戴长期影响的文献，通过分析约会网络来了解当前的研究现状，确定不同的研究领域和被引用最多的出版物。
我们使用 Web of Science 数据库进行文献检索，在 1977 年至 2021 年 1 月期间，使用“Long-term”和“contact lens wear”这两个术语进行搜索。然后使用 CitNetExplorer 和 CiteSpace 软件进行文献分析。为了获得图形，我们使用了 VOSviewer 软件。
共发现 721 篇文献，其中包含 2999 条引文。2010 年被单独列为“关键年份”，这是因为当年发表的文献数量增加，以及全球范围内隐形眼镜的应用增多。被引用最多的文献是 Holden 等人发表于 1985 年的《长期延长接触镜佩戴对人眼角膜的影响》。通过使用聚类功能，我们确定了三个涵盖该领域不同研究领域的聚类：形态变化、角膜感觉丧失、泪膜特征和眼部生理的纵向变化。
该领域的主要研究主题集中在角膜内皮细胞层发生的形态变化上。
