Global Research on Syndromic Surveillance from 1993 to 2017: Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization

Ibrahim Musa, Hyun Woo Park, Lkhagvadorj Munkhdalai and Keun Ho Ryu
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Ibrahim Musa: Database/Bioinformatics Laboratory, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 28644, Korea
Hyun Woo Park: Database/Bioinformatics Laboratory, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 28644, Korea
Lkhagvadorj Munkhdalai: Database/Bioinformatics Laboratory, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 28644, Korea
Keun Ho Ryu: Database/Bioinformatics Laboratory, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 28644, Korea

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 10, 1-20

Abstract: Syndromic Surveillance aims at analyzing medical data to detect clusters of illness or forecast disease outbreaks. Although the research in this field is flourishing in terms of publications, an insight of the global research output has been overlooked. This paper aims at analyzing the global scientific output of the research from 1993 to 2017. To this end, the paper uses bibliometric analysis and visualization to achieve its goal. Particularly, a data processing framework was proposed based on citation datasets collected from Scopus and Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC). The bibliometric method and Citespace were used to analyze the institutions, countries, and research areas as well as the current hotspots and trends. The preprocessed dataset includes 14,680 citation records. The analysis uncovered USA, England, Canada, France and Australia as the top five most productive countries publishing about Syndromic Surveillance. On the other hand, at the Pinnacle of academic institutions are the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The reference co-citation analysis uncovered the common research venues and further analysis of the keyword cooccurrence revealed the most trending topics. The findings of this research will help in enriching the field with a comprehensive view of the status and future trends of the research on Syndromic Surveillance.

Keywords: syndromic surveillance; healthcare; sustainable healthcare; infectious disease; bibliometric analysis; domain mapping; CiteSpace; WoCC; Scopus; Statplanet (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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