Bibliometric Analysis of Studies on the Relationship between COVID-19 Vaccines and Myocarditis

In this study, a bibliometric analysis of the worldwide trends of studies on the relationship between COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis was performed. This bibliometric study investigates the studies on the relationship between COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis conducted worldwide between the years 2020-2023. For this purpose, 746 studies were examined as a result of searches made in Web of Science and Scopus databases. For data collection, information such as title, author names, publication year, journal name and number of citations were used. All text data are analyzed with “VOSviewer software” to ensure accuracy and reliability. In this study, analyses using text mining and data visualization methods (eg bubble maps) helped to make the results more understandable. In this article, information is given about 733 articles from Web of Science and Scopus databases and 11797 citations to these articles. The average number of citations per article is 16 and the H index is 45. As of 2021, both the number of articles and the number of citations have increased. Almost all of the articles have been published in the cardiovascular system and other health sciences. The USA, Italy, England and Japan are the countries that published the most articles (54%) on this subject. Most of the articles (79%) are in the SCI-Expanded category. The findings we obtained in our study show that many researchers are active in studies on the relationship between COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis and that the research in this field is increasing.