Robotic surgery is a new revolution in spinal surgery: a visual bibliometrics analysis

This study conducts a bibliometric analysis of the literature related to robotic surgery in spinal surgery to identify research hotspots and provide a foundation and suggestions for its future development. The paper focuses on the fields of robotics and spinal surgery, retrieving relevant literature from the Web of Science Core Collection (WOSCC) database from 2001 to December 31, 2024. The number of publications per year is quantified using GraphPad Prism, and CiteSpace is employed to analyze the collaboration among authors, countries, and institutions, as well as the co-citation patterns of journals or literature. Finally, keyword clustering and visualization analysis were performed. China and the USA lead in the number of publications and demonstrate the closest collaboration with other countries and institutions. The main identified keywords include "accuracy" and "spine surgery" with research hotspots focusing on "image guidance" and "biomechanics" The research on robotic surgery in spinal surgery shows a continuous growth trend, indicating that this field will remain a focal point in spinal surgery research in the future.