Zammarchi Gianpaolo, Conversano Claudio
Department of Economics and Business Sciences, University of Cagliari, 09123 Cagliari, Italy.
Vision (Basel). 2021 Nov 11;5(4):56. doi: 10.3390/vision5040056.
Eye tracking provides a quantitative measure of eye movements during different activities. We report the results from a bibliometric analysis to investigate trends in eye tracking research applied to the study of different medical conditions. We conducted a search on the Web of Science Core Collection (WoS) database and analyzed the dataset of 2456 retrieved articles using VOSviewer and the Bibliometrix R package. The most represented area was psychiatry (503, 20.5%) followed by neuroscience (465, 18.9%) and psychology developmental (337, 13.7%). The annual scientific production growth was 11.14% and showed exponential growth with three main peaks in 2011, 2015 and 2017. Extensive collaboration networks were identified between the three countries with the highest scientific production, the USA (35.3%), the UK (9.5%) and Germany (7.3%). Based on term co-occurrence maps and analyses of sources of articles, we identified autism spectrum disorders as the most investigated condition and conducted specific analyses on 638 articles related to this topic which showed an annual scientific production growth of 16.52%. The majority of studies focused on autism used eye tracking to investigate gaze patterns with regards to stimuli related to social interaction. Our analysis highlights the widespread and increasing use of eye tracking in the study of different neurological and psychiatric conditions.
眼动追踪提供了不同活动期间眼动的定量测量方法。我们报告了一项文献计量分析的结果,以研究应用于不同医学病症研究的眼动追踪研究趋势。我们在科学网核心合集(WoS)数据库中进行了检索,并使用VOSviewer和Bibliometrix R包分析了检索到的2456篇文章的数据集。占比最大的领域是精神病学(503篇,20.5%),其次是神经科学(465篇,18.9%)和发展心理学(337篇,13.7%)。年科学产出增长率为11.14%,呈指数增长,在2011年、2015年和2017年出现三个主要峰值。在科学产出最高的三个国家,即美国(35.3%)、英国(9.5%)和德国(7.3%)之间,发现了广泛的合作网络。基于术语共现图谱和文章来源分析,我们确定自闭症谱系障碍是研究最多的病症,并对638篇与此主题相关的文章进行了具体分析,这些文章显示年科学产出增长率为16.52%。大多数针对自闭症的研究使用眼动追踪来研究与社交互动相关刺激的注视模式。我们的分析强调了眼动追踪在不同神经和精神病症研究中的广泛且不断增加的应用。