Bibliometric analysis of the 100 most cited articles on congenital cataracts

Aim: It was aimed to present a summary of the articles published between 1980-2022 on congenital cataract, identify most cited in field, analyze active journals and development countries by years.Material Method: Search made using keywords “Congenital Cataract”, “OR: Pediatric Infantile “AND: (Year Published)”, English (Language)” Web Science (WOS) database via Boolean operators (Access Date: 01.11.2022). Bibliometric analyzes were VOSviewer (ver.1.6.18), statistical rstudio (ver.2022.02.1), other Microsoft Excel. Results: In bibliometric analysis, 1383 included dates determined. Over past few decades, total number publications cataracts continually increased from 2 1980 68 2022 November. The productive year 2021 (n=93), while 2004 (1,184 citations, 32 publications). studied WOS categories ophthalmology (n=900), pediatrics (183) genetics (167). widely used cataract (n=235), (n=124) pediatric (n=75). paper “Pax6 gene dosage effect family with cataracts, aniridia, anophthalmia central-nervous-system defects”, which Nature Genetics 1994 562 times (impact factor: 8.78). journals, article Survey Ophthalmology (267 times, 1996) Molecular Vision attractive journal 104 publications. United States America, England Peoples R China had highest link strength (TLS), 226 (10,325 citations), 134 (3,621 citations) 73 (3,871 respectively.Conclusion: These findings provide useful information status trends current clinical research cataracts. Our study can be areas standard bibliographic references for better diagnosis disease control.