Li Fan|Min Li|Peng Guan|Shuang Ma|Lei Cui
Mapping Publication Trends and Identifying Hot Spots of Research on Internet Health Information Seeking Behavior: A Quantitative and Co-Word Biclustering Analysis
China Medical University|China Medical University|China Medical University|China Medical University
internet become established source health information people seeking health information recent years research health information seeking behavior internet users become increasingly important scholarly focus however longterm bibliometric studies date internet health information seeking behaviorthe purpose study map publication trends explore research hot spots internet health information seeking behaviora bibliometric analysis based pubmed conducted investigate publication trends research internet health information seeking behavior included publications annual publication number distribution countries authors languages journals annual distribution highly frequent major mesh medical subject headings terms determined furthermore coword biclustering analysis highly frequent major mesh terms utilized detect hot spots fielda total 533 publications included research output gradually increasing five authors published four articles individually total 271 included publications 508 written authors united states 516 533 articles 968 published english eight active journals published 341 182533 publications topic ten research hot spots found 1 behavior internet health information seeking hiv infection sexually transmitted diseases 2 internet health information seeking behavior students 3 behavior internet health information seeking via mobile phone apps 4 physicians utilization internet medical resources 5 utilization social media parents 6 internet health information seeking behavior patients cancer mainly breast cancer 7 trust satisfaction webbased health information consumers 8 interaction internet utilization physicianpatient communication relationship 9 preference computer literacy people using search engines webbased systems 10 attitude people especially adolescents seeking health information via internetthe 10 major research hot spots could provide hints researchers launching new projects output research internet health information seeking behavior gradually increasing compared united states relatively small number publications indexed pubmed developed developing countries indicates extent field might still underdeveloped many countries studies internet health information seeking behavior could give references health information providers