Abstract:

The paper focuses on a recent hot discipline—health informatics. We use Web of Science core collection database as the data source. The Bibliometrics and Knowledge Graph methods are used to sort out the quantitative distribution of health informatics related literatures. Referred to the amounts of published papers, we list the research resources in health informatics, such as representative journals, scholars, research institutions and academic conferences. We also analyze the frequency, co-occurrence networks and time trends of the keywords and summarize the research topics, research hotspots and research trends.

Key words: Health informatics, Bibliometrics, Knowledge graph, Consumer health informatics, Healthy China, Health big data