Global Research on Syndromic Surveillance from 1993 to 2017: Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization

Musa, Ibrahim; Park, Hyun Woo; Munkhdalai, Lkhagvadorj; Ryu, Keun Ho

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“…In keeping with the study by Musa et al. [ 35 ], the terms referring to early detection through surveillance systems and to the control of epidemic outbreaks stand out as the main topic areas linked to public health in relation to disease outbreaks. Specifically, respiratory tract diseases are one of the main areas of interest, especially pneumonia—whether associated with infectious diseases, community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), nosocomial infections, or bacterial cross-infections.…”

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“…In addition to the limited research attention to coronaviruses from the public health surveillance perspective, there was a low presence of research on other infectious diseases despite recurring epidemic outbreaks in the recent past, for example cholera in Zimbabwe in 2008–2009, Haiti in 2010, and Yemen in 2016; Chikungunya Fever (n = 62); and yellow fever, with high-profile outbreaks in Sudan in 2012 and Angola in 2016 [ 35 , 86 , 87 , 88 ].…”

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“…Finally, Musa et al. [ 35 ] identified 14,680 papers on syndromic surveillance at a global level, indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection and Scopus from 1993 to 2017. Authors analyzed the scientific production by country and institution, identifying the main author clusters and their scope of publications along with the most-cited works and trending topics.…”

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Systematic analysis of the scientific literature on population surveillance

González‐Alcaide¹,

Llorente²,

Ramos‐Rincón³

2020

Heliyon

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Introduction Population surveillance provides data on the health status of the population through continuous scrutiny of different indicators. Identifying risk factors is essential for the quickly detecting and controlling of epidemic outbreaks and reducing the incidence of cross-infections and non-communicable diseases. The objective of the present study is to analyze research on population surveillance, identifying the main topics of interest for investigators in the area. Methodology We included documents indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection in the period from 2000 to 2019 and assigned with the generic Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) “population surveillance” or its related terms (“public health surveillance,” “sentinel surveillance” or “biosurveillance”). A co-occurrence analysis was undertaken to identify the document clusters comprising the main research topics. Scientific production, collaboration, and citation patterns in each of the clusters were characterized bibliometrically. We also analyzed research on coronaviruses, relating the results obtained to the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results We included 39,184 documents, which reflected a steady growth in scientific output driven by papers on “Public, Environmental & Occupational Health” (21.62% of the documents) and “Infectious Diseases” (10.49%). Research activity was concentrated in North America (36.41%) and Europe (32.09%). The USA led research in the area (40.14% of documents). Ten topic clusters were identified, including “Disease Outbreaks,” which is closely related to two other clusters (“Genetics” and “Influenza”). Other clusters of note were “Cross Infections” as well as one that brought together general public health concepts and topics related to non-communicable diseases (cardiovascular and coronary diseases, mental diseases, diabetes, wound and injuries, stroke, and asthma). The rest of the clusters addressed “Neoplasms,” “HIV,” “Pregnancy,” “Substance Abuse/Obesity,” and “Tuberculosis.” Although research on coronavirus has focused on population surveillance only occasionally, some papers have analyzed and collated guidelines whose relevance to the dissemination and management of the COVID-19 pandemic has become obvious. Topics include tracing the spread of the virus, limiting mass gatherings that would facilitate its propagation, and the imposition of quarantines. There were important differences in the scientific production and citation of different clusters: the documents on mental illnesses, stroke, substance abuse/obesity, and cross-infections had much higher citations than the clusters on disease outbreaks, tuberculosis, and especially coronavirus, where these values are substantially lower. Conclusions The role of population surveillance should be strengthened, promoting research and the development of public health surveillance systems in countries whose contribution to the area is limited.

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Systematic analysis of the scientific literature on population surveillance

González‐Alcaide¹,

Llorente²,

Ramos‐Rincón³

2020

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“…Contemporary, digital early warning systems apply analytic software browsing search queries of online search engines such as Google, Yahoo or Bing for diseaserelated search terms (cf. Ginsberg et al, 2009;Musa et al, 2018;Santillana et al, 2014). Other tools proposed by previous studies comprise analytical software for (1) searching social media posts and weblogs (Mitchell, 2019;Sharma et al, 2017), (2) observing changes in booking cancellation (Nsoesie et al, 2014) or (3) tracking movements and social contacts in public places by location-based mobile phone tower data or Bluetooth contacts (Fakhruddin, 2020;Gasser et al, 2020).…”

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Digital Pandemic Response Systems: A Strategic Management Framework Against Covid-19

Wirtz

Müller

Weyerer

2020

International Journal of Public Administration

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“…Modern information technology directly promotes the development of bibliometrics; many bibliometric pieces of software, such as CiteSpace, BibExcel, VOSviewer, and HistCite, provide different requirements based on user preferences. Bibliometric analysis has been widely used across different disciplines to understand the development processes in the specific fields, such as the time distribution of academic achievements, scientific cooperation, research contents, and the publication distribution of countries and institutions [31][32][33][34][35][36][37]. Bibliometric analysis has been used in many fields, including physical sciences, social sciences, and medical sciences [38][39][40][41][42].…”

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Research on Ecological Infrastructure from 1990 to 2018: A Bibliometric Analysis

2020

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Ecological infrastructure (EI), as the composite system on which the sustainable development of cities depends, has attracted worldwide attention. Considering refined methodologies and broad scope, researchers lacked overall understanding of research patterns and evolutionary processes on EI-related issues. In this study, we applied the bibliometric approach to describe the current situation of EI-related research, and reveal research trends. Based on the Web of Science Core Collection, the bibliometric analysis of EI-related publications from 1990 to 2018 was performed to discuss the history and present research situation of EI, and preview research prospect. The results showed that:(1) the number of EI-related publications has surged astonishingly worldwide over the last three decades; (2) countries in Europe and North America were the first to invest heavily in EI-related research, while China started later but subsequently developed rapidly; (3) the EI-related research focuses were EI-related management, methods for countering extreme meteorological phenomena, providing ecosystem services, and protecting biodiversity; and (4) the EI-related research frontiers included the design of EI, policy research on EI, role of EI in environmental governance, and research on the adaptability of EI.Ecological infrastructure (EI), which was first introduced in 1984 in UNESCO's Man and Biosphere Programme (MAB), was one of the five principles of ecological city planning which were proposed based on the urban ecological system research reports of 14 cities around the world. The original concept of EI was described as using "natural landscape and natural areas as the framework for spatially organizing the city", and emphasized the sustainable support of natural landscapes and hinterland to cities [17,18]. The prototypes of EI can be traced back to urban parks in the 1850s, such as Birkenhead Park in Liverpool, England and the "Emerald Necklace" project in Boston, USA, etc. These projects attempted the planning and design of urban green open space to provide recreation and aesthetics services for visitors and to improve the public environment, but there was no scientific and systematic theoretical guidance during this period. By 1924, the International Conference on Urban Planning was held in Amsterdam, and the concept of the "satellite city" was proposed, which provided feasible solutions to the problem of urban sprawl through the construction of greenbelts [19]. After 1960, on the basis of landscape ecology, island biogeography theory and metapopulation theory, the concepts such as ecological corridors and ecological networks which suggest to connect isolated habitat patches to help reduce the negative impact of habitat fragmentation on species survival appeared successively [20]. Ecologists and biologists draw from the concept of EI to solve the problems of natural landscape fragmentation and habitat loss [21,22]. So far, EI has developed into the complex with multiple functions such as protecting natural resources and biod...

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Global Research on Syndromic Surveillance from 1993 to 2017: Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization

Cited by 11 publications

References 216 publications

Systematic analysis of the scientific literature on population surveillance

Systematic analysis of the scientific literature on population surveillance

Digital Pandemic Response Systems: A Strategic Management Framework Against Covid-19

Research on Ecological Infrastructure from 1990 to 2018: A Bibliometric Analysis

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