Digital Transformation of Zygomatic Implant Supported Maxillofacial Rehabilitation: A Bibliometric and Thematic Mapping Study

Purpose: This study aimed to ‎characterize publication activity, contributing communities, citation patterns, and thematic ‎‎structures in Scopus-indexed research on digital zygomatic implant rehabilitation. Materials and Methods: Bibliometric analysis and keyword co-occurrence mapping were performed on a provisional ‎corpus of ‎‎94 publications retained from 128 retrieved records. Metadata and keyword variants ‎were standardized. ‎Biblioshiny supported descriptive analysis, and VOSviewer generated ‎author-keyword and indexed-keyword ‎networks, an overlay visualization, and an author-‎keyword threshold sensitivity analysis. Results: The corpus encompassed 49 sources and accumulated 1,286 citations. Publications from 2021–‎‎2025 ‎represented 54.3% of the corpus, with 2025 recording the highest output among completed ‎years. Five sources ‎contributed 38.3% of publications. China and Italy led corresponding-author ‎locations; 17 publications involved ‎international collaboration when sovereign countries were ‎distinguished from territories. The ten most cited ‎publications accounted for 51.9% of citations. ‎The author-keyword network comprised 45 terms in six clusters, ‎spanning guidance, navigation, ‎robotics, biomechanics, and prosthetic rehabilitation. Its structure showed ‎substantial agreement ‎across occurrence thresholds among shared terms (adjusted Rand index, 0.899). The ‎indexed-‎keyword network contained 82 terms in four clusters. Dynamic navigation, augmented reality, ‎and ‎robotics had comparatively recent average publication years. Conclusion: Research activity has expanded across interconnected surgical and prosthetic applications. ‎‎Bibliometric prominence does not establish clinical effectiveness or adoption. Prospective ‎multicentre research ‎should evaluate integrated rehabilitation workflows, technical reliability, ‎prosthetic outcomes, and patient-reported ‎benefits. Findings remain provisional pending ‎resolution of outstanding records. (Int J Maxillofac Prosthetics 2026;9:10-25)