Visual analysis of the development context and hot trend in healthy aging research in China and abroad
10.3760/cma.j.cn115624-20240104-00009
- VernacularTitle:国内外健康老龄化研究发展脉络及热点趋势可视化分析
- Author:
Shuai WU
1
;
Fang CAO
;
Yong SUN
Author Information
1. 新疆医科大学公共卫生学院，乌鲁木齐 830017
- Keywords:
Healthy aging;
The elderly;
Research hotspots;
Atlas;
Bibliometrics
- From:
Chinese Journal of Health Management
2024;18(8):609-615
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To evaluate the development context and hot trends in healthy aging research in China and abroad with visual analysis.Methods:Using “healthy aging” and “aging well” as search terms, relevant literatures in the field of healthy aging were retrieved in the databases of CNKI, WanFang, VIP, CBM, PubMed and Web of Science. The search period was from January 2004 to December 2023. Based on the principle of bibliometrics, with the help of visualization analysis software such as CiteSpace and VOS viewer, the scientific knowledge map was drawn for the number of relevant research publications, author cooperation, publishing institutions, research hotspots and trends.Results:A total of 1 322 Chinese articles and 2 569 English articles were included, and the number of articles published in Chinese and English showed an upward trend as a whole. The Chinese literature included 2 381 scholars, with 83 core authors. The top three most published authors were Hu Zhi (14 articles), Qin Xia (13 articles) and Lu Jiehua (10 articles). The English literature contained 13 989 scholars with close communication and cooperation, of which there are 391 core authors; among the top 15 authors, 8 are American scholars. The top 3 institutions in terms of Chinese literature volume were Peking University (38 articles), Fudan University (20 articles) and Anhui Medical University (20 articles), while the top 3 institutions in English literature volume were University of Pittsburgh (127 articles), University College London (79 articles) and University of Sydney (78 articles). A total of 605 keywords were included in Chinese literatures, and there were 886 connections among the keywords of the literature. The keywords appeared most frequently except subject words were medical and nursing combination (103 times), health status (78 times) and active aging (77 times). There were 11 clustering modules in Chinese literature cluster analysis and 6 clustering modules in English literature. The research on healthy aging in China could be roughly divided into three stages, namely 2004—2009, 2010—2018 and 2019—2023. In recent 4 years, the prominent words in Chinese literature were “aging work” “positive view of old age”“policy supply”“old-age service system”“elderly health service” and“aging society”，while the prominent words in English literature were “senescence”“perspective” and “public health”.Conclusions:The popularity of healthy aging research is on the rise overall, and the number of articles and cooperative relations in English is higher than that in Chinese. At present, the main research hotspots are policy supply, elderly health services, public health and wide variation in China and abroad.
