A Bibliometric Analysis of the Trends in the Research on Wearable Technologies for Cardiovascular Diseases Ginette E. A. KPADJOUDA JOB a,d,1 , Jules DEGILA b,d , S. Arnaud R. M. AHOUANDJINOU c,d , Vinasetan R. HOUNDJI c,d , M. Lamine BA d a Doctoral School of Engineer Sciences b Institute of Mathematics and Physical Science c Institute of Formation and Research in Computer Science d University Alioune Diop of Bambey, Senegal Abstract. In this paper, a bibliometric analysis of research on wearable technologies for cardiovascular diseases was conducted with Bibliometrix and based on 1675 papers collected in Scopus from 2000 to 2022, and interesting results were presented. The US and China stood out for their sustained productivity in the field of cardiovascular diseases. The examination of the authors' keywords revealed that between 2000-01 and 2009-12, "Respiration" and "personalized applications" were the most popular research topics, however from 2010-01 to 2019-12, attention was given to "ECG," "Wearable devices," "Wearable sensors," and "heart rate". This study suggests that in the present decade, researchers should focus on topics related to artificial intelligence, hypertension, ECG, wearable sensors, and African countries must address their technological gap in the coming years. Keywords. Wearable, Cardiovascular, Bibliometric, Bibliometrix Introduction Cardiovascular diseases constitute a great interest among practitioners and scientists in the last years because of the high number of deaths they cause worldwide [1]. In cardiology, traditional wearable devices are limited because they cannot continuously collect physiological parameters during periods of activity but also for monitoring the patient in real-life conditions. These days, advances in nanotechnology, material science, and information technologies allow us to remove these limitations with smart wearable technologies [2]-[6]. This bibliometric study carried out with the Bibliometrix software [7] deals with 1675 documents collected on Scopus. It focuses on wearable technologies for cardiovascular diseases with a particular focus on the thematic orientation of scientific publications in the field from 2000 to 2022. Our development is based on the following research questions: RQ1: From 2000 to 2022, what are the characteristics of the thematic evolution of research on wearable technologies for cardiovascular diseases? 1 Corresponding Author. Ginette E. A. Kpadjouda Job, Sciences and Technologies of Information and Communications, University of Abomey Calavi, Republic of Benim: Email: ginette.kpadjouda@imsp-uac.org pHealth 2022 B. Blobel 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/SHTI220994 256