• Serkan Guler, Sercan Capkin, and Erdem Aras Sezgin.
• Aksaray University Faculty of Medicine, Aksaray Education and Research Hospital, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Aksaray, Turkey.
• Turk Neurosurg. 2021 Jan 1; 31 (1): 124-136.

AimTo carry out an in-depth bibliometric analysis of scoliosis literature.Material And MethodsThis study used the Web of Science database to identify relevant articles for analysis. The literature search used the keyword ?scolio*? and focused on the period between 1980-2019. Bibliometric network visualizations and mapping of specific results were done using VOSviewer software.ResultsThe literature search yielded 9706 publications on scoliosis between 1980 and 2019. Of these, 6975 (71.9%) journal articles were included in the bibliometric summary. Orthopedics was the most common area of research (4581 articles, 65.67%), and the United States of America (USA) exhibited the highest publication productivity (2327 articles, 33.36%). Nanjing University in China had the highest number of publications among institutions (n=219, 3.13% of the total literature), and there were a total of 60130 citations in 6975 articles. Fifty-five articles had a minimum of 100 citations, and the journal with the highest number of publications was ?Spine? (number of article: 1628, 23.3%).ConclusionThis bibliometric analysis may be regarded as a summary and evaluation of global scientific output on scoliosis and can, therefore, be used a guide for researchers, clinicians and students. Furthermore, the keyword analysis can aid professionals in the field when planning new studies.

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