Evolutionary Overview of Consumer Health Informatics: Bibliometric Study on the Web of Science from 1999 to 2019.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Consumer health informatics (CHI) originated in the 1990s. With the rapid development of computer and information technology for health decision making, an increasing number of consumers have obtained health-related information through the internet, and CHI has also attracted the attention of an increasing number of scholars.

Objective

The aim of this study was to analyze the research themes and evolution characteristics of different study periods and to discuss the dynamic evolution path and research theme rules in a time-series framework from the perspective of a strategy map and a data flow in CHI.

Methods

The Web of Science core collection database of the Institute for Scientific Information was used as the data source to retrieve relevant articles in t

SUBMITTER: Ouyang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8461533 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature