Yuan Ming, Lin Han, Wu Hengqin, Yu Mingchuan, Tu Juan, Lü Yong
School of Civil Engineering, Zhengzhou University of Aeronautics, Zhengzhou, China.
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Public Project Audit, School of Information Engineering, Nanjing Audit University, Nanjing, China.
Arch Public Health. 2021 Jan 12;79(1):6. doi: 10.1186/s13690-021-00525-3.
Community engagement (CE) has been regarded as a critical element of successful health programs to achieve "the health for all" goals. Numerous studies have shown that it plays a significant role in reducing inequalities, improving social justice, enhancing benefits, and sharing responsibility towards public health. Despite this, the extant literature of community engagement in public health (CEPH) has topic-focused boundaries and is scattered across disciplinary. Large-scale studies are needed to systematically identify current status, hotspots, knowledge structure, dynamic trends, and future developments in this field.
The bibliometric techniques were applied in the analysis of publications on CEPH in Web of Science Core Collection from Thomson Reuters. One thousand one hundred two papers out of 70.8 million publications over the period of 1980 to 2020 and their 15,116 references were retrieved as the sample set. First, basic characteristics of publications, including distributions of geography, journals and categories, productive authors and frequently cited articles, etc. were obtained. Then, four bibliometric methods, i.e. social network analysis, co-citation analysis, co-occurrence clustering, and burst detection, were further conducted to sketch the contours of the structure and evolution of CEPH.
Between Jan 1, 1980, and Apr 25, 2020, CEPH has attracted a sharp increase in interest all over the world. Total 117 countries or regions have participated in the field of CEPH and the contributions are geographically and institutionally distinct. The United States is the key region performing such research, which accounts for more than half of the total number of publications. Developing countries, such as South Africa, India, Brazil and China also contributed a lot. The advancements of CEPH are marked by historically momentous public health events and evolved from macroscopic strategies to mesoscopic and microscopic actions. Based on keyword clustering and co-citation clustering, we propose a 4O (i.e. orientation, object, operation, and outcome) framework of CEPH to facilitate a better understanding of the current global achievements and an elaborate structuring of developments in the future.
This study draws an outline of the global review on the contemporary and cross-disciplinary research of CEPH which might present an opportunity to take stock and understand the march of knowledge as well as the logical venation underlying research activities which are fundamental to inform policy making.
社区参与（CE）被视为成功的健康项目实现“全民健康”目标的关键要素。大量研究表明，它在减少不平等、改善社会正义、增加效益以及分担公共卫生责任方面发挥着重要作用。尽管如此，公共卫生领域社区参与（CEPH）的现有文献存在主题聚焦的局限性，且分散在多个学科中。需要开展大规模研究，以系统地确定该领域的现状、热点、知识结构、动态趋势和未来发展。
采用文献计量学技术分析汤森路透科学网核心合集中关于CEPH的出版物。在1980年至2020年期间的7080万篇出版物中检索出1102篇论文及其15116条参考文献作为样本集。首先，获取出版物的基本特征，包括地理分布、期刊和类别分布、高产作者和高被引文章等。然后，进一步运用四种文献计量方法，即社会网络分析、共被引分析、共现聚类和突发检测，来勾勒CEPH的结构和演变轮廓。
1980年1月1日至2020年4月25日期间，CEPH在全球范围内引起了人们的浓厚兴趣。共有117个国家或地区参与了CEPH领域的研究，其贡献在地理和机构方面存在差异。美国是开展此类研究的关键地区，占出版物总数的一半以上。南非、印度、巴西和中国等发展中国家也做出了很大贡献。CEPH的发展以具有历史意义的公共卫生事件为标志，从宏观战略演变为中观和微观行动。基于关键词聚类和共被引聚类，我们提出了一个CEPH的4O（即方向、对象、操作和结果）框架，以促进对当前全球成就的更好理解，并对未来的发展进行精细构建。
本研究勾勒了CEPH当代跨学科研究的全球综述轮廓，这可能为总结和理解知识的发展以及研究活动背后的逻辑脉络提供契机，而这些对于为政策制定提供信息至关重要。
