TY - GEN
T1 - Overview of the health informatics research field
T2 - 1st IMIA/IFIP Joint Symposium on E-Health, 2010 held as part of World Computer Congress, WCC 2010
AU - Liang, Hai Ning
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2010.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Health informatics is a relatively new research area. Over the last decade or so, research in health information has been growing at a very rapid rate, as evidenced by the large number of publications. While this growth has been beneficial to the field, it has also made understanding the scope of the field more difficult. Consequently, it is difficult to answer questions such as how the research field has evolved over time, what the landmark publications are, what impact these publications have had, and who are the most prolific and high impact researchers. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the research field of health informatics and, in doing so, attempt to answer some of the questions just mentioned. To this end, we make use of two bibliometric tools: HistCite and CiteSpace II. Because these tools offer complementary bibliometric methods, their use together provides results that are more robust. In this paper, we report some general findings of our bibliometric analysis using these two tools.
AB - Health informatics is a relatively new research area. Over the last decade or so, research in health information has been growing at a very rapid rate, as evidenced by the large number of publications. While this growth has been beneficial to the field, it has also made understanding the scope of the field more difficult. Consequently, it is difficult to answer questions such as how the research field has evolved over time, what the landmark publications are, what impact these publications have had, and who are the most prolific and high impact researchers. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the research field of health informatics and, in doing so, attempt to answer some of the questions just mentioned. To this end, we make use of two bibliometric tools: HistCite and CiteSpace II. Because these tools offer complementary bibliometric methods, their use together provides results that are more robust. In this paper, we report some general findings of our bibliometric analysis using these two tools.
KW - Bibliometrics
KW - Citation and co-citation analysis
KW - E-health
KW - Health informatics
KW - Literature review
KW - Medical informatics
KW - Research field
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-15515-4_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-15515-4_5
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:84921811329
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 37
EP - 48
BT - E-Health - 1st IMIA/IFIP Joint Symposium, E-Health 2010 Held as Part of WCC 2010, Proceedings
A2 - Takeda, Hiroshi
A2 - Takeda, Hiroshi
A2 - Takeda, Hiroshi
PB - Springer New York LLC
Y2 - 20 September 2010 through 23 September 2010
ER -