Urinary Incontinence is a urologic symptom that can have a significant impact on women's physical and mental health and quality of life. In addition, women with UI may experience socioeconomic burdens due to UI’s effect on their ability to work and function in society (1). A large body of literature has been published on urinary incontinence, ranging from medical treatment, epidemiology, and surgical techniques (2). Mapping scientific trends are one of the most important missions of scientometric research for effective research. The main goal of this paper was to visualize and draw the intellectual and cognitive structures of urinary incontinence using science mapping.

In this cross-sectional scientometric study, we recruited all documents indexed in the Web of Science database with the topic of urinary incontinence. To analyze the results, 3 software, SciMAT-v1.1.04, VOSviewer-v1.6.14, CitNetExplorer_v1.0.0, were used.

There are 33,804 results from the Web of Science Core Collection for Urinary Incontinence. After retrieving the resources and outputs appropriate to the software used, comprehensive maps of scientific products in this field were extracted in three sections: authors, journals, and keywords. Scientific illustrated maps were also drawn. Thematic clusters were identified. Finally, a thematic strategic diagram of the Urinary Incontinence domain was drawn in order to discover the maturity and citation talent of the Urinary Incontinence domain subjects. In this scientometric study, which aimed to evaluate the most research done in the field of urinary incontinence, the following items were evaluated: the country in which the most research was done, the researcher who did the most research, and the identification of existing gaps. According to the results, the biggest networking for the research of urinary incontinence field belonged to the United States, and the other countries such as China, England, Brazil, and Turkey were in the next rank (Figure 1). In addition, it seems that the biggest networking for the research field of urinary incontinence is for the affiliated universities of the United States, too (Figure 2).

The biggest networking for the research of urinary incontinence field belonged to the United States and affiliated universities of the United States. Grant providers, based on the roadmap they draw according to the findings and identification of existing gaps, can identify centers active in this field and, if necessary, direct the grants in that direction, and at the same time discover the lack of research in various regions to improve the health care by more investment in those areas.

Grant providers, based on the findings and identification of existing gaps, can identify centers active in this field and, if necessary, direct the grants in that direction, and at the same time discover the lack of research in various regions to improve the health care by more investment in those areas.

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