Objective: The main purpose of this study is to investigate the literature in the field of “fat tax” amongst the period for 1999-2021 through the VOSviewer program.
Methods: The necessary data are acquired from the Web of Science database. Four hundred seventeen publications of different types on the concept of “fat tax” in the fields of health and economics found in the Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index-Expanded, and Emerging Sources Citation Index citation indexes on the Web of Science database. The selected publications have been bibliometrically investigated by VOSviewer. The keywords, authors, and countries that made the most intensive contribution to the research area in the field were visualized and illustrated on tables and maps.
Results: The outcome of the study demonstrates that although the first study on the fat tax was published in 1999, and the number of publications and citations followed a fluctuating course in the following years. In terms of the number of publications and citations, which tended to increase in the years after 2018, 2021 was the year in which the subject received the most attention with 223 publications and 880 citations.
Conclusion: In this study, “fat tax” studies in the field of health economics were investigated utilizing bibliometric analysis technique. In the literature review, it can be stated that there is hardly any bibliometric analysis study based on VOSviewer on this topic. The most frequently used keywords were determined and shown in the study as “obesity,” “fat tax,” “tax,” “health,” “food,” and “nutrition and public health.”
Cite this article as: Torun M. A bibliometric analysis on fat tax. Arch Health Sci Res. 2022;9(3):203-209.