Currently submitted to: JMIR Medical Education
Date Submitted: Sep 4, 2023
Date Accepted: May 14, 2024
Global trends in mHealth and medical education research: bibliometrics and knowledge graph analysis
ABSTRACT
Background:
Mobile health (mHealth) is an emerging mobile communication and networking technology for healthcare systems in recent years. The field of mHealth in medical education is growing extremely rapidly. mHealth has brought new changes to medical education. However, no previous study has analyzed both mHealth and medical education.
Objective:
This study aims to summarize the current application of mHealth in medical education and evaluate the development trend of mHealth in medical education by searching and analyzing previous articles related to mHealth and medical education.
Methods:
The literatures from 2003 to 2023 in the Web of Science core database were searched, and 790 articles were screened according to the inclusion criteria. The Histcite Pro tool was used to analyze bibliometric indicators. VOSviewer, Pajek64, and SCImago Graphica were used to visualize research trends and hot spots.
Results:
In the past two decades, especially since 2007, the number of published papers has been increasing year by year, and the number of published papers in 2022 has risen to 130. The global citation score (GCS) is 10,600, with an average of 13.42 citations per article. The local citation score (LCS) is 96. The United States is the country with the best application of mHealth in medical education, and most of the institutions with in-depth research are located in the United States. The depth of research in China and the UK followed closely behind. Global co-authorship and research exchange will continue to expand. Among the research journals, JMIR Publications has an absolute advantage in this joint field. The 105 keywords were divided into five categories pointing to different research directions.
Conclusions:
Under the influence of COVID-19, the popularization of smartphones and modern communication technology, the field of combining mHealth and medical education has become a more popular direction. In the process of promoting the development of medical education in the future, the concept and application of digital health will be promoted.
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