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The use of AI for therapeutic purposes has been hampered by its inexplicability. Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), a revolutionary movement, has arisen to solve this constraint. By using decision-making and prediction outputs, XAI seeks to improve the explicability of standard AI models. In this study, we examined global developments in empirical XAI research in the medical field. The bibliometric analysis tools VOSviewer and Biblioshiny were used to examine 171 open access publications from the Scopus database (2019\u20132022). Our findings point to several prospects for growth in this area, notably in areas of medicine like diagnostic imaging. With 109 research articles using XAI for healthcare classification, prediction, and diagnosis, the USA leads the world in research output. With 88 citations, IEEE Access has the greatest number of publications of all the journals. 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