A Bibliometric Analysis of Virtual Reality- Aided Vision Therapy Qasim ALI a,1 , Ilona HELDAL a and Carsten Gunnar HELGESEN a a Department of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway Abstract. While Virtual Reality (VR) has gained significant attention in different domains of health care and promises benefits for managing vision disturbances, no bibliometric analysis focuses on its use in vision therapy. This study aims to analyze and visualize the scientific literature indexed in the Web of Science databases by visualizing bibliometric indicators illustrating publication trends from 2001. The findings provide a better understanding of the state-of-the-art of existing vision therapy research utilizing VR. Keywords. Virtual reality, vision therapy, bibliometric analysis, visualization 1. Introduction Vision therapy (VT) is a non-surgical, non-medication method of developing, restoring or increasing vision function performance and processing [1]. A wide range of vision and non-vision disorders have been addressed by VT, including oculomotor dysfunction, convergence problems, help for vision training and better focus in sports, dyslexia, and post-concussion vision disorders [2]. The recent advancement of novel technologies has complemented or substituted the conventional VT approaches and minimized some associated challenges such as skin irritation (patching one eye), psychological effects of binocular inhibition, maintaining complete documentation of the treatment [3], or reaching more with challenging training [4, 5]. Virtual Reality (VR) applications can be considered viable tools in health care for non-invasive therapies. The main advantages of using VR applications for VT are providing high imaging for stimuli, customization, and the possibility of using the eyes monocularly and binocularly [6]. The lenses in a Head-Mounted Display (HMD) can display different images to each eye separately, which results in a dichoptic stimulus presentation. The VR technologies' dichoptic and stereoptic characteristics can offer a suitable tool for treating amblyopia and strabismus [3]. The bibliometric method provides quantitative assessments of scientific literature. It can be used to identify the development of a particular field by visualizing, e.g., the distribution patterns of journals, authors, or countries [7]. Currently, only a few bibliometric studies have investigated the impacts of VR-aided therapy. For example, for general health science, Liu et al. [8], but VT was not included. This study aims to analyze 1 Corresponding Author, Qasim Ali, Department of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Fabrikkgt, R203-08, 5059, Bergen, Norway; E-mail: ali.qasim@hvl.no. Advances in Informatics, Management and Technology in Healthcare J. Mantas et al. (Eds.) © 2022 The authors and IOS Press. This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0). doi:10.3233/SHTI220781 526