Medical professionalism research characteristics and hotspots: a 10-year bibliometric analysis of publications from 2010 to 2019.

ABSTRACT: An abundance of publications on medical professionalism have been published in recent years. Our study aimed to analyze the external characteristics of publications on professionalism using bibliometrics, to describe its current developments and trends, and to explore professionalism research hotspots using co-word analysis. We retrieved literature on professionalism published from 2010 to 2019 from the Web of Science database. Histcite and CiteSpace were used to analyze external characteristics of publications, including publication trends and distributions of publications by country/region, institution, author, and journal. Co-word analysis was conducted to analyze research hotspots, using the Bibliographic Item Co-Occurrence Matrix Builder and Graphical Clustering Toolkit. We constructe

SUBMITTER: Song X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8256397 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature