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Evolution of primary care databases in UK: a scientometric analysis of research output
- Source :
- BMJ Open, Nottingham eTheses, CORE (RIOXX-UK Aggregator), Sygma, PubMed Central
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- BMJ Publishing Group, 2016.
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Abstract
- Objective:To identify publication and citation trends, most productive institutions and countries, top journals, most cited articles and authorship networks from articles that used and analysed data from primary care databases (CPRD, THIN, QResearch) of pseudonymised electronic health records in UK.\ud Methods: Descriptive statistics and scientometric tools were used to analyse a SCOPUS dataset of 1891 articles. Open access software was used to extract networks from the dataset (Table2Net), visualise and analyse co-authorship networks of scholars and countries (Gephi) and, density maps (VOSviewer) of research topics co-occurrence and journal co-citation.\ud Results: Research output increased overall at a yearly rate of 18.65%. While medicine is the main field of research, studies in more specialised areas include biochemistry and pharmacology. Researchers from UK, USA and Spanish institutions have published the most papers. Most of the journals that publish this type of research and most cited papers come from UK and USA. Authorship varied between 3-6 authors. Keyword analyses show that smoking, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and mental illnesses, as well as medication that can treat such medical conditions, such as non-steroid anti-inflammatory agents, insulin and antidepressants constitute the main topics of research. Co-authorship network analyses show that lead scientists, directors or founders of these databases are, to various degrees, at the centre of clusters in this scientific community.\ud Conclusions: There is a considerable increase of publications in primary care research from electronic health records. The UK has been well placed at the centre of an expanding global scientific community, facilitating international collaborations and bringing together international expertise in medicine, biochemical and pharmaceutical research.
- Subjects :
- Biomedical Research
Evidence-based practice
Databases, Factual
Scopus
Information Storage and Retrieval
Health Informatics
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Bibliometrics
computer.software_genre
Health informatics
scientometrics
STATISTICS & RESEARCH METHODS
electronic patient records
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
PRIMARY CARE
Electronic Health Records
Humans
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Publication
Primary Health Care
Descriptive statistics
Database
business.industry
Research
General Medicine
Scientometrics
Authorship
United Kingdom
United States
3. Good health
Spain
Periodicals as Topic
Citation
business
computer
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20446055
- Volume :
- 6
- Issue :
- 2044-6055
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMJ Open
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....98fe7d481c10bb9cfb855e74add72806