Psychological Consequences Associated With Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

The current paper explores the mutual impact of psychological factors and cardiac surgery on each other using bibliometric analysis with the help of indicative cited publications, co-cited journals, and collaborations between countries, institutions, and authors. Citation analysis is an attractive methodology because it provides quantitative information that is readily acquired with electronic databases and that can be compared across topic areas. The bibliometric investigation was done using the PubMed database, Scopus, Web of Science, etc. with the help of appropriate MeSH words. Followed by an analysis of data with the help of CiteSpace 5.3.R4, Microsoft Excel 2016, and IBM SPSS Statistics 20.0 software (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY). The software extracts the number of scientific publications, citation frequency, and keyword trends. Relational figures and tables were obtained for data interpretation. The records of 259 articles were analyzed using bibliometric investigation which shows the increasing incidence of psychological consequences linked with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery. This indicates that immediate management is required to overcome this. The present bibliometric study emphasizes the need for psychological screening and management of post-CABG patients. This will lay the path for organizing and prioritizing future research on vascular psychiatry and its early management.

Keywords: anxiety; bibliometric analysis; coronary artery bypass graft; depression; psychological factors; vascular psychiatry.

Figure 1. A graphical illustration of annual scientific production between the years 1994 and 2020.

Figure 2. A graphical illustration of the analysis of top authors with their number of documents.

Figure 3. A graphical illustration of the analysis of the top author’s annual production over time.

Figure 4. A graphical illustration of the most relevant journals with their article frequency.

Figure 5. A graphical illustration of the Journals growth trend from the year 1994 to 2020.

Figure 6. A graphical illustration of the occurrence of the most relevant words.

Figure 7. A graphical illustration of the word growth analysis.

Figure 8. Global Map representing the collaboration of countries with the highest number of scientific publications.

Figure 9. A graphical illustration of the analysis of corresponding authors’ countries with single country publications and multiple country publications.

Figure 10. A graphical illustration of the analysis of university affiliations with total number of articles.