Current performance and future trends in health care sciences and services research

Yao, Qiang; Lyu, Peng‐Hui; Yang, Lu; Yao, Lan; Liu, Zhiyong

doi:10.1007/s11192-014-1383-7

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“…The academic impact of the papers was measured using the total local citation score (TLCS), total global citation score (TGCS), and average global citation score (AGCS) [31]. Co-authorship and social network analysis were also used to study the collaboration at the country and institution levels [18]. Furthermore, co-words and cluster analysis were used in combination to identify the popular topics.…”

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“…AGCS is the mean value of TGCS and indicates the average citation number of articles in the HSS areas. TLCS and TGCS have been the key indicators in evaluating the relevance of research papers [18]. …”

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“…Degree centrality is defined as the number of ties of a node, representing the simplest notion of centrality because such a value simply refers to the number of neighbors of a node in the network. Degree centrality is a crucial indicator in analyzing the network, thereby reflecting the importance and influence of an institution or a country in the network [18]. …”

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“…This study was built on our previous work which analyzed the global progress and current research trends on health care sciences and services research [18]. Although the rapid growth and extensive collaboration in HSS research is observed in theory and practice in China, the publication trends, collaboration patterns and their effects on HSS research in this country remain unclear.…”

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International publication trends and collaboration performance of China in healthcare science and services research

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BackgroundIn recent years, China’s healthcare reforms and related studies have drawn particular global attention. The main objective of this study is to evaluate quantitatively the publication trends and collaboration performance of China in healthcare science and services (HSS) research.MethodsScientometric methods and visualization technology were used to survey the growth and development trends of HSS research based on the Web of Science publications during the past 15 years.ResultsChina’s international publications on HSS research increased rapidly compared to those of the global HSS and Chinese scientific studies. Growth trends indicate that collaboration among countries, institutions and authors has also increased. China’s leading partners were all developed countries, such as the US, the UK, Australia and Canada, which have contributed to the majority of the joint publications. The academic impact of publications involving partners from European and American countries was relatively higher than those involving partners from Asian countries. Prominent institutions were universities that could be primarily classified into two groups, namely, Mainland China on the one hand and Hong Kong universities and foreign universities on the other. The most prominent actors were elite institutions, such as Peking University, Fudan University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong. The papers published by the Chinese Ministry of Health had relatively high academic impact, whereas those published by Mainland China universities alone had a lower academic impact compared to foreign cooperation papers. Issues related to the Chinese healthcare reform, priority diseases (e.g., breast cancer, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, etc.), health systems performance, quality of life and measurement tools, aging problems and research methods have been the most popular HSS topics in China in recent years.ConclusionsDespite the extensive achievement of the Chinese HSS reforms and research, gaps and challenges remain to be addressed, including those related to health insurance and the effects of the evaluation of essential medicine systems, human resources training and allocation in the health sector, government hospitals reforms and health services systems remodeling. These findings could help scholars and decision-makers understand the current status and likely future trends of the Chinese HSS research, and help them select the most appropriate collaboration partners and policies.

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“…The top 6 countries in descending order by AGCS which indicates the high average quality of these articles [37], are the USA, Canada, the UK, China, Australia and Germany. Figure 7 shows the collaboration relationship of the most productive countries.…”

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Visualizing Collaboration Characteristics and Topic Burst on International Mobile Health Research: Bibliometric Analysis (Preprint)

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Visualizing the structure and the evolving of digital medicine: a scientometrics review

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This article aims to analyze and visualize the structure and the emerging trend of digital medicine, a new medical pattern of twenty-first century. Our study objectively explores the document co-citation clusters of 6060 bibliographic records to identify the origin of digital medicine and the hot research specialty of domain. Pivotal point articles, prominent authors, active disciplines and institution have been identified by network analysis theory. CiteSpace was used to visualize the perspective of digital medicine domain. As an interdiscipline which integrated computer science, information engineering with medicine, digital medicine originally and mainly on digital medical imaging technology research for accuracy and speedy clinical diagnosis and therapy. Of 6060 relevant records reviewed, 1719 (28 %) are on radiology, 902 (15 %) are on engineering, 539 (9 %) are on computer science. The largest co-citation cluster is on digital tomosynthesis. The earliest cluster is on medical imaging segmentation and registration. Post-processing imaging technology, detector, phase contrast, reversible watermarking, input, model 3D reconstruct, real-time dynamic imaging, dosimetry have been the hot research topics. The recently cluster is on internet health information. Harvard University of USA is the prominent institution. The coverage of digital medicine research is widely from clinic to laboratory. Recent year, domain research front is thematically on teleradiology, telemedicine and hospital information management system.

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Current performance and future trends in health care sciences and services research

Cited by 23 publications

References 81 publications

International publication trends and collaboration performance of China in healthcare science and services research

International publication trends and collaboration performance of China in healthcare science and services research

Visualizing Collaboration Characteristics and Topic Burst on International Mobile Health Research: Bibliometric Analysis (Preprint)

Visualizing the structure and the evolving of digital medicine: a scientometrics review

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