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Abstract Objective: Percutaneous discectomy is an important issue in the field of neurosurgery. However, the outputs of scientific publications on this subject are not known. The goal of this study was to add to the body of knowledge by performing a bibliometric analysis of the original scientific studies on percutaneous discectomy that have been published since 1970. Material and Method: The literature review was done using the Web of Science database. All articles and citations related to percutaneous discectomy containing the keywords Mesh were searched in the "title" section of the search engine. The articles produced by the countries and their developments was analyzed. The Vosviewer program was utilized to map the coauthorship, keywords, etc. of the articles. Results: There was 619 articles between 1983-2021. The first articles were published in 1983 (3 articles). Nearly 73% of the articles have been published since 2000. The leading country on percutaneous discectomy was the People's Republic of China (n=264, 42.649%). Corresponding authors from China, South Korea, the United States of America (USA), Japan and Germany were the most productive authors. The publications from China had 2237 citations (8.47 per article), the publications from South Korea had 3483 citations (34.49 per article). Wooridul Spine Hospital (South Korea) was the mostly publishing affiliation. Conclusion: Future research on percutaneous discectomy will be able to benefit from the data collected in this bibliometric study. The majority of the publications originated from China, followed by South Korea and the USA. The number of publications from other countries around the world was very limited. These numbers need to be increased.