Ranjha Kaleem Ullah, Shahnoor Syeda, Ghaffar Rimmel Abdul, Khan Abdul Moiz, Farooq Minaam
Department of Neurological Surgery, King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Pakistan.
Department of Neurological Surgery, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.
Asian J Neurosurg. 2025 Mar 31;20(3):437-447. doi: 10.1055/s-0045-1806860. eCollection 2025 Sep.
Exoscopes, introduced as an alternative to operative microscopes in neurosurgery, aim to enhance intraoperative visualization, ergonomics, cost-effectiveness, and patient outcomes. This study employs bibliometric analysis to delineate topic trends and fields within neurosurgery utilizing exoscopes. Articles and reviews from January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2023, were manually retrieved from Scopus, based on predefined criteria encompassing publications related to exoscopes in neurosurgery. All publication records were imported and analyzed using Microsoft Excel and VOSviewer. A total of 186 articles were included for final analysis. While work on exoscopes was limited until 2015, there was an upsurge in publication output from 2018 to 2022. The United States led in the number of articles (72/186, 38.7%) and in total citations (1259). Brazil ranked first in average citation index (26.00). The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, United States, published the most articles (5), while Cedars-Sinai Medical Center USA accrued the highest number of citations (181). A.J. Schupper (4) and Constantinos Hadjipanayis (7) were the authors with the most publications as the first author and the last author, respectively. was the most prolific journal with 41 publications. Recent keywords centered around themes such as "ergonomics" (47 times) and "three-dimensional imaging" (44 times). Most collaboration occurred between developed countries such as the United States, Germany, Finland, and Austria. Most articles (87) focused on brain, with 25 articles focusing on spine. Our findings offer valuable insights to identify potential research frontiers within different fields of neurosurgery in the coming years.
外科外视镜作为神经外科手术显微镜的替代品被引入，旨在增强术中可视化效果、改善人体工程学、提高成本效益并改善患者预后。本研究采用文献计量分析来描绘神经外科领域中使用外科外视镜的主题趋势和领域。根据包括神经外科中与外科外视镜相关出版物的预定义标准，于2002年1月1日至2023年12月31日从Scopus中手动检索文章和综述。所有出版物记录均导入Microsoft Excel并使用VOSviewer进行分析。最终纳入186篇文章进行分析。在2015年之前，关于外科外视镜的研究有限，但在2018年至2022年期间出版物数量激增。美国在文章数量（72/186，38.7%）和总被引次数（1259）方面领先。巴西在平均被引指数方面排名第一（26.00）。美国宾夕法尼亚大学医院发表的文章最多（5篇），而美国西达赛奈医疗中心的被引次数最高（181次）。A.J. Schupper（4篇）和Constantinos Hadjipanayis（7篇）分别是作为第一作者和最后作者发表文章最多的作者。 是发表文章最多的期刊，有41篇出版物。近期关键词集中在“人体工程学”（47次）和“三维成像”（44次）等主题上。大多数合作发生在美国、德国、芬兰和奥地利等发达国家之间。大多数文章（87篇）聚焦于脑部，25篇文章聚焦于脊柱。我们的研究结果为识别未来几年神经外科不同领域内的潜在研究前沿提供了有价值的见解。
