Mapping the knowledge structure of frailty in journal articles by text network analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Backgrounds

This study was to understand the trends of frailty research and networking features of keywords from the academic articles focusing on frailty in the last four decades.

Method

Keywords were extracted from articles (n = 6,424) retrieved from Web of Science, from 1981 to April 2016, using Bibexcel, and a social network analysis was conducted using Net Miner.

Results

The core-keywords of research on frailty are constantly changing over the last 40 years. The keywords were tended to focus on impact in the 1980s, and moved to the determinants (i.e., malnutrition) in the 1990s and the 2000s, and in the 2010s, most of keywords were about determinants and measurement of frailty. In the early stages of frailty research, individual behaviour modifications were empha

SUBMITTER: Kim Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5908161 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature