Research Progress of Central Serous Chorioretinopathy in Recent 20 Years Based on Visual Bibliometric Analysis

ABSTRACT

Objective

To dynamically track the publications on central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) and depict the research status and hot spots to guide future research.

Methods

Gather all papers published in this area between 2004 and 2024 in the WOSCC databases comprehensively, assess their trends, and characterize the contributions of various nations, authors, institutions, and journals. In addition, VOSviewer, CiteSpace, and R software are used to obtain the most popular keywords for the topic.

Results

A total of 2,203 papers were published across 1,863 institutions in 59 countries. Among these, 6,907 authors contributed to publications in 300 journals and generated a total of 35,638 citations. The number of publications continues to grow steadily. Notably, Jay Chhablani’s team/Lab stands out as the leading contributor with ownership of 84 publications. Through keyword network analysis and clustering techniques, risk factor-related clustering, imaging-related clustering, pathogenesis-related clustering, and treatment-related clustering were identified. Furthermore, keyword analysis has unveiled emerging frontier areas including pachychoroid disease, choroidal vasculature abnormalities, PDT therapy, and optical coherence tomography that have garnered increasing interest.

Conclusion

This study presents a comprehensive review of central serous retinopathy research conducted in the past two decades, highlighting key trends and exploring emerging research frontiers within this field. As such, it provides valuable references and suggestions for researchers engaged in studying this topic.

KEYWORDS:

• Bibliometric analysis
• central serous chorioretinopathy
• vosviewer
• citespace
• bibliometrix

DISCLOSURE STATEMENT

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

The datasets analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

Additional information

Funding

Supported by the Sichuan Science and Technol- ogy Program (2022YFS0611); the project of Youth Innovation in Medical Research in Sichuan Province (Q15014); the Scientific Research Topics of Sichuan Health and Family Planning Commission (16PJ560); and the Luzhou Science and Technology Program (2023JYJ037).