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Bibliometric Analysis on Health Information-Related Research in Korea

국내 건강정보관련 연구에 대한 계량서지학적 분석

  • 김진원 (명지대학교 문헌정보학과) ;
  • 이한슬 (명지대학교 문헌정보학과)
  • Received : 2024.02.19
  • Accepted : 2024.03.07
  • Published : 2024.03.30
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Abstract

This study aims to identify and comprehensively view health information-related research trends using a bibliometric analysis. To this end, 1,193 papers from 2002 to 2023 related to "health information" were collected through the Korea Citation Index (KCI) database and analyzed in diverse aspects: research trends by period, academic fields, intellectual structure, and keyword changes. Results indicated that the number of papers related to health information continued to increase and has been decreasing since 2021. The main academic fields of health information-related research included "biomedical engineering," "preventive medicine/occupational environmental medicine," "law," "nursing," "library and information science," and "interdisciplinary research." Moreover, a co-word analysis was performed to understand the intellectual structure of research related to health information. As a result of applying the parallel nearest neighbor clustering (PNNC) algorithm to identify the structure and cluster of the derived network, four clusters and 17 subgroups belonging to them could be identified, centering on two conglomerates: "medical engineering perspective on health information" and "social science perspective on health information." An inflection point analysis was attempted to track the timing of change in the academic field and keywords, and common changes were observed between 2010 and 2011. Finally, a strategy diagram was derived through the average publication year and word frequency, and high-frequency keywords were presented by dividing them into "promising," "growth," and "mature." Unlike previous studies that mainly focused on content analysis, this study is meaningful in that it viewed the research area related to health information from an integrated perspective using various bibliometric methods.

본 연구는 계량서지학적 분석 방법을 통해 여러 영역으로 나누어진 국내 건강정보 관련 연구를 통합적인 시각으로 보고자 하였다. 이를 위해 한국학술지인용색인 데이터베이스를 통해 2002년부터 2023년까지의 국내 '건강정보' 관련 논문 1,193편을 수집하여 시기별 동향, 학문분야, 지적구조, 키워드 변화 시기를 분석하였다. 분석결과, 건강정보 관련 논문 수는 지속적으로 증가하였으며, 2021년 이후 감소하고 있다. 건강정보 관련 연구의 주요 학문분야는 '의공학', '예방의학/직업환경의학', '법학', '간호학', '문헌정보학', '학제간연구'로 볼 수 있다. 건강정보 관련 연구의 지적구조를 파악하기 위해 단어동시출현분석을 시행하였다. 이후 도출된 네트워크의 구조와 군집파악을 위해 병렬최근접이웃클러스터링 알고리즘을 적용한 결과 '건강정보에 대한 의료공학적 관점'과 '건강정보에 대한 사회과학적 관점'이라는 2개의 대군집을 중심으로 그에 속한 4개의 중군집, 17개의 소군집을 파악할 수 있었다. 학문분야와 키워드의 변화 시기를 추적하기 위해 변곡점 분석을 시도하였으며 공통적으로 2010년과 2011년 사이에 변화가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 마지막으로 평균 출판년도와 단어출현빈도를 통해 전략 다이어그램을 도출하였으며 고빈도 키워드를 '유망', '성장', '성숙' 영역으로 구분하여 제시하였다. 본 연구는 주로 내용분석 중심의 선행연구들과 다르게 여러 가지 계량서지학적 방법을 통해 건강정보 관련 연구영역을 통합적인 시각으로 바라보았다는 데 의의가 있다.

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