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Groneberg, D. A., Rahimian, S., Bundschuh, M., Schwarzer, M., Gerber, A., & Kloft, B. (2015). Telemedicine - a scientometric and density equalizing analysis. Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England), 1038. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12995-015-0076-3
Groneberg, David A, et al. "Telemedicine - a scientometric and density equalizing analysis." Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England) vol. 10 (2015): 38. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12995-015-0076-3
Groneberg DA, Rahimian S, Bundschuh M, Schwarzer M, Gerber A, Kloft B. Telemedicine - a scientometric and density equalizing analysis. J Occup Med Toxicol. 2015 Oct 24;10:38. doi: 10.1186/s12995-015-0076-3. eCollection 2015. PMID: 26500688; PMCID: PMC4619516.
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J Occup Med Toxicol. 2015 Oct 24;10:38. doi: 10.1186/s12995-015-0076-3. eCollection 2015.

Telemedicine - a scientometric and density equalizing analysis.

Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England)

David A Groneberg, Shaghayegh Rahimian, Matthias Bundschuh, Mario Schwarzer, Alexander Gerber, Beatrix Kloft

Affiliations

  1. Department of Health Economics, The Institute of Occupational Medicine, Social Medicine and Environmental Medicine, Goethe University Frankfurt, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt, Germany.
  2. Institute of Occupational Medicine, Charité School of Medicine, Thielallee 73, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
  3. Health Economics, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt, Germany.

PMID: 26500688 PMCID: PMC4619516 DOI: 10.1186/s12995-015-0076-3

Abstract

BACKGROUND: As a result of the various telemedicine projects in the past years a large number of studies were recently published in this field. However, a precise bibliometric analysis of telemedicine publications does not exist so far.

METHODS: The present study was conducted to establish a data base of the existing approaches. Density-equalizing algorithms were used and data was retrieved from the Thomson Reuters database Web of Science.

RESULTS: During the period from 1900 to 2006 a number of 3290 filed items were connected to telemedicine, with the first being published in 1964. The studies originate from 101 countries, with the USA, Great Britain and Canada being the most productive suppliers participating in 56.08 % of all published items. Analyzing the average citation per item for countries with more than 10 publications, Ireland ranked first (10.19/item), New Zealand ranked second (9.5/item) followed by Finland (9.04/item). The citation rate can be assumed as an indicator for research quality. The ten most productive journals include three journals with the main focus telemedicine and another five with the main focus "Information/Informatics". In all subject categories examined for published items related to telemedicine, "Health Care Sciences & Services" ranked first by far. More than 36 % of all publications are assigned to this category, followed by "Medical Informatics" with 9.72 % and "Medicine, General & Internal" with 8.84 % of all publications.

CONCLUSION: In summary it can be concluded that the data shows clearly a strong increase in research productivity. Using science citation analysis it can be assumed that there is a large rise in the interest in telemedicine studies.

Keywords: Bibliometry; Citation; Density equalizing map; Scientometry; Telemedicine

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