Co-word and Co-authorship Analysis of Articles Published in the Journal of Health Information Management

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Ali Akbar Khasseh 1
Afshin Mousavi-Chalak 2
Atefeh Shahidi-Moghaddam 3
1 Assistant Professor, Knowledge and Information Science, Department of Knowledge and Information Science. Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
2 Associate Professor, Knowledge and Information Science, Department of Knowledge and Information Science. Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
3 MSc, Knowledge and Information Science, Department of Knowledge and Information Science. Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
10.22122/him.v17i2.4077
Abstract
Introduction: Recognizing the current situation and comparing research activities on various topics has made it important today to evaluate research activities using scientometrics techniques. The purpose of this study was to conduct co-word and co-authorship analysis of the articles published in the Journal of Health Information Management (JHIM) from 2009 to 2018.Methods: The data for this study were extracted from Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC). The statistical population of the study consisted of 807 articles published in the JHIM in a ten-year period (2009-2018).Results: Isfahan University of Medical Sciences was the most prolific institution with the production of 236 articles. Over 94% of articles were published collaboratively. Mohammad Hossein Yarmohammadian had the highest scores in terms of centrality indicators. The keyword "hospitals" was the most frequently used keywords in the JHIM. Hierarchical clustering indicated seven clusters with the themes of hospital services and performance, knowledge management in universities, hospital information systems, quantitative measurement studies of health information, health Indicators, health information management and technology, and quality of health care in hospitals.Conclusion: The scientific collaboration approach among authors has been relatively good at producing scientific works. However, there are several authors with a limited number of articles. There are also a small number of core institutions and universities in producing scientific works in the field of health information management. With the exception of the knowledge management cluster at the universities, all the obtained clusters are aligned with the journal's thematic axes.

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