Published online Nov 27, 2021. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v13.i11.1509
Peer-review started: April 11, 2021
First decision: June 17, 2021
Revised: July 2, 2021
Accepted: October 11, 2021
Article in press: October 11, 2021
Published online: November 27, 2021
Processing time: 228 Days and 23.5 Hours
Sleeve gastrectomy has grown in popularity among laparoscopic surgeons who do bariatric surgery and has shown to be an effective way of obtaining significant weight loss in a short period of time.
The amount of scientific evidence relating to sleeve gastrectomy is massive, and the annually published article curve is sharply increasing. It is still weakly correlated and unconnected to a simple algorithm or graph to describe the pattern and highlight the issues that require more scientific input so that researchers may work on them.
The goal of this study is to use bibliometric approaches to assess the research activity in sleeve gastrectomy over the last two decades and to visualize the hot areas and developing trends in this type of bariatric surgery.
On January 9, 2021, we performed a literature search utilizing the Scopus database to gather papers from 2001 to 2020 for this retrospective research. Bibliometric characteristics such as publication output, countries, institutions, journals, citation frequency, and research hotspots were evaluated by using Excel 2013 and VOSviewer.
Over the previous 20 years, the number of publications on sleeve gastrectomy has progressively increased. The outcomes of the current study were skewed in favor of high-income nations. The United States and France have a big effect in this sector.
The present literature on sleeve gastrectomy focused on numerous issues, including morbidity and possible complications, the procedure's complexity and various surgical methods, and diabetes mellitus and body mass index in connection to sleeve gastrectomy.
This bibliometric study may aid researchers in better understanding the current state of knowledge and research horizons in the field of sleeve gastrectomy.