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Visualizing the History and Perspectives of Disaster Medicine: A Bibliometric Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2019

Xinxin Hao ,
Yunling Liu ,
Xiaoxue Li  and
Jingchen Zheng
Xinxin Hao
Affiliation:
School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Yunling Liu
Affiliation:
Department of Precaution and Healthcare, Da Meng Zhuang Town-Level Health Centers, Wuqing District, Tianjin, China
Xiaoxue Li
Affiliation:
Department of Modern Hospital Management, The Third Medical Centre, Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, China
Jingchen Zheng*
Affiliation:
School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China Department of Modern Hospital Management, The Third Medical Centre, Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, China
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to Jingchen Zheng, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China (e-mail: 64510521@qq.com).
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Abstract

Objective:

To analyze the development of disaster medicine and to identify the main obstacles to improving disaster medicine research and application.

Methods:

A topic search strategy was used to search the Web of Science Core Collection database. The 100 articles with the highest local citation scores were selected for bibliometric analysis; summarizing informetric indicators; and preparing a historiography, themes network, and key word co-occurrence map.

Results:

The 100 articles with the highest local citation scores were published from 1983 to 2013 in 9 countries, mainly in the United States. The most productive authors were Koenig and Rubinson. The lead research institution was Columbia University. The most commonly cited journal was the Annals of Emergency Medicine. The development of disaster medicine could be separated into 3 consecutive periods. All results indicate that the development of disaster medicine faces some obstacles that need to be addressed.

Conclusions:

Research works have provided a solid foundation for disaster medicine, but its development has been in a slow growth period for a long time. Obstacles to the development of disaster medicine include the lack of scientist communities, transdisciplinary research, innovative research perspectives, and continuous research. Future research should overcome these obstacles so as to make further advances in this field.

Keywords

disaster medicinebibliometricslocal citation scorehistoriographyobstacles
Type
Original Research
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 13 , Issue 5-6 , December 2019 , pp. 966 - 973
Copyright
Copyright © 2019 Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 

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