Clinical application and development of robotic surgery

Abstract

Objective Bibliometric was used to systematically analyze robotic surgery literatures, to summarize the application and current development situation of robotic surgery. Methods We systematically searched Web of science and CNKI to collect literatures about robotic surgery. Citespace 5.1. R6 and Excel 2016 were used to analyze collaboration of countries, number of literatures, distribution of author, organization, key words and journals etc. Results By analyzing collaboration of countries, we found that there were 67 countries to research robotic surgery system, which including America, Germany, Italy, China and Britain etc. And America was the No. 1 in publishing robotic surgery literatures and had the most frequent collaboration with other countries. We also could find that the amount of robotic surgery literatures increased since 1999, and international literatures about robotic operation increased more quickly. Regarding distribution of journals, the number of international journals publishing robotic operation literatures were obviously more than domestic.The research highlights of international and domestic literatures focused on urinary surgery and tumor. Conclusions Robotic operation was a big hot spot in minimally invasive surgery and mainly used to tumorectomy. The research level of robotic operation in our country was relatively lower than international countries, for fewer published articles, fewer citation times and collaborations with other countries. Key words: Robotic; Surgery; Bibliometric; Visualize