Background: For many years it has been studied how eye movements influence reading and
learning ability. The objective of this study is to determine the relationships between the
different publications and authors. As well as to identify the different areas of research ocular
movement.; Methods: Web of Science was the database for the search of publications
for the period 1900 to May 2021, using the terms: “Eye movement" AND “Academic
achiev*”. The analysis of the publication was performed using the CitNetExplorer,
VOSviewer and CiteSpace software.; Results: 4391 publications and 11033 citation networks
were found. The year with the most publications is 2018, a total of 318 publications
and 10 citation networks. The most cited publication was "Saccade target selection and object
recognition: evidence for a common attentional mechanism." published by Deubel et al.
in 1999, with a citation index of 214. Using the Clustering function, nine groups were found
that cover the main research areas in this field: neurological, age, perceptual attention, visual
disturbances, sports, driving, sleep, vision therapy and academic performance.; Conclusion:
Even being a multidisciplinary field of study, the topic with the most publications to date is
the visual search procedure at the neurological level.