Exploring the Shift in International Trends in Mobile Health Research From 2000 to 2020: Bibliometric Analysis
In: JMIR Mhealth Uhealth, 2021
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BACKGROUND: Smartphones have become an integral part of our lives with unprecedented popularity and a diverse selection of apps. The continuous upgrading of information technology has also enabled smartphones to display great potential in the field of health care. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to determine the future research direction of mobile health (mHealth) by analyzing its research trends and latest research hotspots. METHODS: This study collected mHealth-related literature published between 2000 and 2020 from the Web of Science database. Descriptive statistics of publication trends of mHealth research were determined by analyzing the annual number of publications in the literature and annual number of publications by country. We constructed visualization network maps of country (or regional) collaborations and author-provided keyword co-occurrences, as well as overlay visualization maps of the average publication year of author-provided keywords to analyze the hotspots and research trends in mHealth research. RESULTS: In total, 12,593 mHealth-related research papers published between 2000 and 2020 were found. The results showed an exponential growth trend in the number of annual publications in mHealth literature. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, the Journal of Medical Internet Research, and JMIR Research Protocols were the 3 top journals with respect to number of publications. The United States remained the leading contributor to the literature in this area (5294/12,593, 42.0%), well ahead of other countries and regions. Other countries and regions also showed a clear trend of annual increases in the number of mHealth publications. The 4 countries with the largest number of publications—the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia—were found to cooperate more closely. The rest of the countries and regions showed a clear geographic pattern of cooperation. The keyword co-occurrence analysis of the top 100 authors demonstrated 5 clusters, namely, development of mHealth medical technology and its application ...
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Exploring the Shift in International Trends in Mobile Health Research From 2000 to 2020: Bibliometric Analysis
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Cao, Jianfei ; Lim, Yeongjoo ; Sengoku, Shintaro ; Guo, Xitong ; Kodama, Kota |
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Zeitschrift: | JMIR Mhealth Uhealth, 2021 |
Veröffentlichung: | JMIR Publications, 2021 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
DOI: | 10.2196/31097 |
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