College of Quality and Safety Engineering, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, China.
Department of Internal Medicine, Xiaoshan District Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
J Med Syst. 2018 Aug 17;42(10):179. doi: 10.1007/s10916-018-1033-3.
This study aims to analyze the scientific research progress on human fatigue assessment (HFA) by using a bibliometric method, which was conducted a systematic analyses of 28,028 scientific papers about HFA from the Web of Science database, and the results were discussed from the following perspectives: temporal distribution, geographical distribution, discipline distribution, and key words distribution. In addition, this analysis also provides the network of author co-citation and key words. The results are summarized as follows: 1) the number of papers about HFA increased rapidly since 1990s; 2) The United States is a high-yield, high-cited country with 36.70% of the world's total literatures, and whose average citation index on HFA research is 47.89 per paper; China is the developing country with the largest number of publications, but its total citations and average citations are backward, only with an average of 21 citations per article; 3) The assessment of human fatigue shows the development trend of multidisciplinary intersecting; 4) There is a relative lack of cooperation among the world's leading scholars; the Dutch Gijs Bleijenberg is the most published scholar in the world, who have 108 articles on HFA research; the American scholar David Cella has the most influential article, with an h-index of 36; the distribution of Chinese scholars is relatively scattered, and no one has written more than five articles; 5) All of countries in the world had the same research topics, "muscle fatigue" is an important part of the HFA; China needs to pay more attention to the fatigue assessment associated with cancer. The results of the analysis can be used to enhance our understanding of HFA research and support further research in this area.
本研究旨在运用文献计量学方法分析人类疲劳评估（HFA）的科研进展，对 Web of Science 数据库中 28028 篇关于 HFA 的科学论文进行了系统分析，从时间分布、地域分布、学科分布和关键词分布等方面进行了讨论。此外，本分析还提供了作者共被引和关键词的网络。结果总结如下：1）自 20 世纪 90 年代以来，关于 HFA 的论文数量迅速增加；2）美国是一个高产量、高引用的国家，其文献总量占世界的 36.70%，HFA 研究的平均引文指标为每篇论文 47.89 篇；中国是发表文献数量最多的发展中国家，但总引文量和平均引文量落后，每篇文章平均引文量仅为 21 篇；3）人类疲劳评估呈现出多学科交叉发展的趋势；4）世界领先学者之间合作相对较少；荷兰的 Gijs Bleijenberg 是发表 HFA 研究论文最多的学者，有 108 篇文章；美国学者 David Cella 发表的文章最具影响力，h 指数为 36；中国学者的分布较为分散，没有一人发表的文章超过 5 篇；5）世界各国的研究课题相同，“肌肉疲劳”是 HFA 的重要组成部分；中国需要更加关注与癌症相关的疲劳评估。分析结果可用于增进我们对 HFA 研究的理解，并为该领域的进一步研究提供支持。
