Scientometric Analysis of Research Trends in Health Informatics Reflected in Web of Science

Authors

  • Garima Gujral Centre for Library and Information Management Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
  • Shivarama J

Keywords:

Health Informatics, medical Informatics, Keyword Analysis, Co-word Analysis, Scientometrics, Information Visualization

Abstract

Knowledge Management (KM) is crucial now in all spheres of human activity especially health. Present paper reports results of keyword analysis conducted to get insights into Health Informatics (HI) research trends. The theme papers can be obtaind from the author’s keywords and keywords-plus based on cluster analysis. Scientometric analysis of papers on HI indexed in the Web of Science database forms the basis of the study. Visualization techniques were applied using VOS Viewer software to find out the most popular author keywords and co-words. The terms health informatics, medical informatics, electronic health records, informatics, E-health, consumer health informatics, natural language processing, health information technology etc werefound to be the most popular author keyword. The highest number of publications were in the English. The term ‘health informatics’ has co-occurred with several clusters which refers to the interdisciplinary nature of the field of health informatics. The publication productivity on HI is found to be growing over the years. The findings also revealed that HI is multidisciplinary in nature and has been maturing as a discipline. The findings of the study also revealed the emerging research areas, dominant topics and the relationships between author keywords and co-words in the field of HI.

Author Biographies

  • Garima Gujral, Centre for Library and Information Management Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

    Garima Gujral is presently a taxonomist at Walmart Global Tech. Benguluru, Karnataka, India. He completed his PhD from Centre for Library and Information Management Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

  • Shivarama J

    Shivarama J: is Assistant Professor, at Centre for Library and Information Management Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

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2021-12-02

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Vol. 8 No. 4 (2021): In Remembrance of Prof A M Michael

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