ReviewHealthcare informatics research2019
Analyzing and Visualizing Knowledge Structures of Health Informatics from 1974 to 2018: A Bibliometric and Social Network Analysis.
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Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
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- Topics and Trends of Health Informatics Education Research: Scientometric Analysis.JMIR medical education · 2024Article
- Data Analysis of Physician Competence Research Trend: Social Network Analysis and Topic Modeling Approach.JMIR medical informatics · 2023Article
- A bibliometric analysis of published literature on healthcare facilities' wayfinding research from 1974 to 2020.Heliyon · 2022Review
- Delineating privacy aspects of COVID tracing applications embedded with proximity measurement technologies & digital technologies.Technology in society · 2022Article
- The Development History and Research Tendency of Medical Informatics: Topic Evolution Analysis.JMIR medical informatics · 2022Article
- Climate Change, Human Health, and Health Informatics: A New View of Connected and Sustainable Digital Health.Frontiers in digital health · 2022Review
- Mapping current research and identifying hotspots on mesenchymal stem cells in cardiovascular disease.Stem cell research & therapy · 2020Article
- Keyword Trends for Mother-Child Oral Health in Korea Based on Social Media Big Data from Naver.Healthcare informatics research · 2020Article
- Maternal influenza vaccination relates to receiving relevant information among pregnant women in Japan.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2020Article
- Development of Caring as a Human Science: 50 Years of History of the Korean Society of Nursing Science.Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing · 2020Article
- Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS): a research overview.AIMS neuroscience · 2020Review
- Artificial intelligence with multi-functional machine learning platform development for better healthcare and precision medicine.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectivesThis paper aims to provide a theoretical clarification of the health informatics field by conducting a quantitative review analysis of the health informatics literature. And this paper aims to map scientific networks; to uncover the explicit and hidden patterns, knowledge structures, and sub-structures in scientific networks; to track the flow and burst of scientific topics; and to discover what effects they have on the scientific growth of health informatics.
methodsThis study was a quantitative literature review of the health informatics field, employing text mining and bibliometric research methods. This paper reviews 30,115 articles with health informatics as their topic, which are indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection Database from 1974 to 2018. This study analyzed and mapped four networks: author co-citation network, co-occurring author keywords and keywords plus, co-occurring subject categories, and country co-citation network. We used CiteSpace 5.3 and VOSviewer to analyze data, and we used Gephi 0.9.2 and VOSviewer to visualize the networks.
resultsThis study found that the three major themes of the literature from 1974 to 2018 were the utilization of computer science in healthcare, the impact of health informatics on patient safety and the quality of healthcare, and decision support systems. The study found that, since 2016, health informatics has entered a new era to provide predictive, preventative, personalized, and participatory healthcare systems.
conclusionsThis study found that the future strands of research may be patient-generated health data, deep learning algorithms, quantified self and self-tracking tools, and Internet of Things based decision support systems.
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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.