Global trends and hotspots of the digital therapeutics in rehabilitation: A bibliometric analysis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Background: Digital therapeutics (DTx) are emerging as a dynamic field at the intersection of healthcare and technology, utilising software-driven interventions to prevent, manage, or treat medical conditions. Within rehabilitation, DTx has gained prominence for its potential to improve patient outcomes and refine therapeutic strategies. This article conducts a bibliometric analysis of existing literature to uncover current research trends and offer insights for future investigations. Methods: The Science Citation Index Expanded database from the Web of Science Core Collection was used to retrieve articles and reviews related to DTx in rehabilitation. The data were subjected to systematic analysis using the VOSviewer and Citespace software tools, which facilitated the examination of publication data at the country, institutional, author, journal, citation, and keyword levels. Results: = 832). Leading contributors to research output and citation impact include the United States, Italy, China, Canada, and United Kingdom. Current research hotspots include the efficacy of DTx in rehabilitation, with a focus on innovative applications in psychiatric disorders, telerehabilitation, and cognitive rehabilitation. The top 10 researchers were all from Italy, and half of them were affiliated to the Centro Neurolesi Bonino Pulejo Messina. Conclusions: This study represents the first comprehensive bibliometric analysis of DTx within the rehabilitation field. It identifies current research frontiers and emerging directions, serving as a valuable resource for scholars and researchers investigating DTx's impact on rehabilitation practices.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.016 | 0.119 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".