Introduction <p>Infection following orthopaedic trauma remains a major challenge to the orthopaedic surgeons, because of the increased morbidity, increase financial cost, and debilitating psychosocial effect associated with it. Several terminologies have previously been used to described it, but in 2017, there was introduction and consensus definition of the term Fracture-Related Infection (FRI). The objective of the current study is to quantitatively and qualitatively analyse the FRI research field.</p> Materials and methods <p>The Scopus database was used for this study. A search was conducted, and after identifying the most relevant publications on FRI, the data was retrieved and analysed using Bibliometrix and VOSviewer. The data analysed were the conceptual, intellectual and social structure of the body of literature on FRI, and the result was presented in tables and figures.</p> Result <p>A total of 539 articles were identified. The results shows that 2485 authors from 75 countries have published documents related to FRI in 177 journals. It identifies University Hospital, Leuven as the most important institution contributing to the FRI literature and United State of America (USA) as the most productive country. The article by the consensus group is regarded as the most important article having been cited 547 times, and the journal with the most impact is Injury-International Journal of the care of the Injured.</p> Conclusion <p>The research interest in FRI continues to increase as shown by the upward trend in the number of publications over the years, and it is possible this will continue based on the research trends.</p>