Graduate School of Technology Management, Ritsumeikan University, 2-150 Iwakuracho, Ibaraki 567-8570, Japan.
School of Environment and Society, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 108-0023, Japan.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Dec 7;19(24):16427. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192416427.
In recent years, Wearable Devices have been used in a wide variety of applications and fields, but because they span so many different disciplines, it is difficult to ascertain the intellectual structure of this entire research domain. No review encompasses the whole research domain related to Wearable Devices. In this study, we collected articles on wearable devices from 2001 to 2022 and quantitatively organized them by bibliometric analysis to clarify the intellectual structure of this research domain as a whole. The cluster analysis, co-occurrence analysis, and network centrality analysis were conducted on articles collected from the Web of Science. As a result, we identified one cluster that represents applied research and two clusters that represent basic research in this research domain. Furthermore, focusing on the top two countries contributing to this research domain, China and the USA., it was confirmed that China is extremely inclined toward basic research and the USA. toward applied research, indicating that applied and basic research are in balance. The basic intellectual structure of this cross-sectional research domain was identified. The results summarize the current state of research related to Wearable Devices and provide insight into trends.
近年来，可穿戴设备已经在各种应用和领域中得到了广泛应用，但由于其跨越了许多不同的学科领域，因此很难确定整个研究领域的知识结构。没有一篇综述涵盖了与可穿戴设备相关的整个研究领域。在本研究中，我们从 2001 年到 2022 年收集了有关可穿戴设备的文章，并通过文献计量分析对其进行了定量组织，以阐明整个研究领域的知识结构。我们对从 Web of Science 收集的文章进行了聚类分析、共现分析和网络中心性分析。结果表明，我们在这个研究领域中确定了一个代表应用研究的聚类和两个代表基础研究的聚类。此外，我们还关注了对这个研究领域贡献最大的两个国家，中国和美国。结果表明，中国非常倾向于基础研究，而美国则倾向于应用研究，这表明应用研究和基础研究是平衡的。确定了这个交叉领域研究的基本知识结构。研究结果总结了当前可穿戴设备相关研究的现状，并提供了对趋势的深入了解。
