School of Health Care Administration, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan; Institute of Health Policy and Management, National Taiwan University, Taiwan; Golden Dream Think Tank and Research Center, Taiwan.
Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan.
Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2015 Dec;122(3):471-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2015.09.008. Epub 2015 Sep 15.
Over the past two decades, the use of telemedicine as a way to provide medical services has grown as communication technologies advance and patients seek more convenient ways to receive care. Because developments within this field are still rapidly evolving, identifying trends within telemedicine literature is an important task to help delineate future directions of telemedicine research. In this study, we analyzed 7960 telemedicine-related publication records found in the Science Citations Index - Expanded database between 1993 and 2012. Bibliometric analyses revealed that while the total growth in telemedicine literature has been significant in the last twenty years, the publication activity per country and over time has been variable. While the United States led the world in the cumulative number of telemedicine publications, Norway ranked highest when we ordered countries by publications per capita. We also saw that the growth in the number of publications per year has been inconsistent over the past two decades. Our results identified that neuroscience neurology and nursing as two fields of research in telemedicine that have seen considerable growth in interest in this field, and are poised to be the focus of research activity in the near future.
在过去的二十年中，随着通信技术的进步和患者寻求更便捷的医疗方式，远程医疗作为提供医疗服务的一种方式得到了广泛应用。由于该领域的发展仍在迅速演变，因此识别远程医疗文献中的趋势是一项重要任务，可以帮助描绘远程医疗研究的未来方向。在这项研究中，我们分析了 1993 年至 2012 年间科学引文索引扩展数据库中发现的 7960 篇与远程医疗相关的出版物记录。文献计量分析表明，尽管在过去二十年中远程医疗文献的总体增长显著，但每个国家和随时间的出版活动是可变的。虽然美国在远程医疗出版物的累计数量上处于领先地位，但按人均出版物排名，挪威排名最高。我们还发现，过去二十年来，每年出版物数量的增长并不稳定。我们的研究结果确定，神经科学、神经病学和护理学是远程医疗领域两个研究领域，该领域的研究兴趣显著增长，并且有望成为近期研究活动的重点。
