Research Article | 18 Jul 2017

Depiction of global trends in publications on mobile health

Shahla Foozonkhah1 and Leila R. Kalankesh2,3Show more
1. Department of Health Information Technology Assessment, Standardization and Tariff Setting, Iranian Ministry of Health and Education,Tehran, Iran.
2. Tabriz Health Services Management Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
3. Department of Health Information Technology, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.

Corresponding author: Leila R. Kalankesh (Lrkalankesh@tbzmed.ac.ir)

Received: 04-04-2017, Accepted: 20-06-2017, Published: 18-07-2017

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ONE HEALTH | pg no. 42-45 | Vol. 3, Issue 1 | DOI: 10.14202/IJOH.2017.42-45
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Abstract

              
Background and Aim: This paper aims to depict global trends in the published works on m-health topic.
Materials and Methods: The Web of Science database was used to identify all relevant published papers on mobile health domain worldwide. The search was conducted on documents published from January 1898 to December 2014. The criteria for searching were set to be "mHealth" or "Mobile health" or "m health" or "m_health" or "m-health" in topics.
Results: Findings revealed an increasing trend of citations and publications on m-health research since 2012. English was the first most predominant language of the publication. The US had the highest number of publication with 649 papers; however, the Netherlands ranked first after considering publication number in terms of countries population. "Studies in Health Technology and Informatics" was the source title with highest number of publications on mobile health topics.
Conclusion: Trend of research observed in this study indicates the continuing growth is happening in mobile health domain. This may imply that the new model of health-care delivery is emerging. Further research is needed to specify directions of mobile health research. It is necessary to identify and prioritize the research gaps in this domain. Keywords: mHealth, mobile health, publication trend, research trend, scientometrics.

             
Keywords: mHealth, mobile health, publication trend, research trend, scientometrics.