Content Analysis of Scientometric Studies in the Field of Health Economics

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Ismael Mostafavi 1
Marzieh Yarizanganeh 2
Yeganeh Dastar 3
1 Associate Professor, Department of Information Science and Knowledge Studies, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran
2 Department of Knowledge and Information Science, Marv.C., Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran.
3 PhD student of Information Retrieval and Knowledge, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran
10.48305/him.2025.45611.1333
Abstract
Introduction: With the significant increase in published articles on health economics, quantitative analysis of these studies is
essential to understand the current status and future directions of research in this field. The main objective of this study is to examine
the content of scientific productions in health economics and to create a thematic map.
Methods: This study is a descriptive-analytical and applied scientometric research. Data were extracted from the Web of Science
database for the period 2020 to 2024 and analyzed using Excel, VOSviewer, and RStudio software.
Results: The study showed the universities of Oxford, Melbourne, and Monash as the top affiliated institutions in this field.
Important topics identified include "quality of life," "validation," "people," "depression interventions," "health," "outcomes,"
"management," and "risk of outbreak.".
Conclusion: Research in this field focuses on topics such as cost-effectiveness of healthcare, health policy and planning, economic
evaluation of health services and interventions, communicable diseases like COVID-19, and innovative health service delivery
methods such as telemedicine. Key extracted keywords reflect economic issues, policymaking, epidemiology, and new methods of
health service delivery, highlighting the interdisciplinary and multidimensional nature of health economics.

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