Turkish journal of ophthalmology
Long-Term Ocular and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of Retinopathy of Prematurity: A Bibliometric and Thematic Evolution Analysis
By Karataş E, Parlak SN, Güney MN and 1 others.
Abstract
Objectives
To map the global research landscape on the long-term outcomes of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and quantify the representation of four clinically relevant outcome domains: visual and refractive outcomes, structural retinal and macular sequelae, late post-treatment complications, and neurodevelopmental and quality-of-life outcomes.
Materials and methods
Two Web of Science Core Collection datasets were created on July 21, 2026 and limited to English-language original articles: Dataset A (general long-term ROP outcomes) and Dataset B (long-term outcomes after ROP treatment). Bibliometric analyses were performed in R using the bibliometrix package. A predefined 108-term outcome lexicon was applied to merged Author Keywords and Keywords Plus. Domain distributions were compared using the chi-square test, and representation ratios were calculated with 95% confidence intervals (CI).