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Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery  2019, Vol. 3 Issue (4): 2-12    DOI: 10.11925/infotech.2096-3467.2018.1063
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An Overview of Online Medical and Health Research: Hot Topics, Theme Evolution and Research Content
Jiang Wu1,2(),Guanjun Liu1,Xian Hu1
1School of Information Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
2Center for E-commerce Research and Development, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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Abstract  

[Objective] This paper reviews the literature of the online health research, and discusses their methods, hot topics, theme evolution, and trends, aiming to provide reference for exploration in the future. [Coverage] The data are selected from Web of Science core collection by using the keywords of “Online medical” or “Online health”, finally 1,899 English articles were retrieved. [Methods] This paper mainly relies on the methods of bibliometrics, cluster analysis and vertical mapping analysis. [Results] Internet medical and health information, social media, online health community, electronic health records are the hot topics which are influenced by the diversification of Internet information and the convenience of online communication. [Limitations] This paper does not retrieve data from other databases and analyze the full text. The results might be biased. [Conclusions] There are still much to be explored in the field of online health. Combined with image recognition, deep learning and neural networks, more researches can be conducted in the future.
Key words： Online Health      Bibliometrics      Hot Topics      Theme Evolution      Visualization     
Received: 25 September 2018      Published: 29 May 2019
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Jiang Wu,Guanjun Liu,Xian Hu. An Overview of Online Medical and Health Research: Hot Topics, Theme Evolution and Research Content. Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery, 2019, 3(4): 2-12.

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