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Objective To analyze the related research papers and highly cited papers of healthcare professionals' information behavior,explore the research status and trend of this field.Methods Publications on the information behavior of healthcare professionals were searched from Web of Science.Bibliometric analysis was carried out from the aspects of number of publications,periodical dis tribution,productive author,subordinate organizations,distribution of countries or regions and research hotspot.Results Altogether 364 publications were collected on the information behavior of medical personnel;36.13％ (112 articles) were published in 12 journals.The themes focused on health care science services,information science and library science,medical informatics,computer science,etc.There are 18 research organizations with more than 4 articles;The United States was the strongest country in this field which has 112 articles;Publications was cited totally 4698 times,and there are 7 articles which were cited more than 110 times,the highest cited article was cited 23 times over the past 5 years.Conclusions The number of articles in the field of information behavior has been increasing,and the core journals and core research institutions have been basically formed.In the past five years,the highly cited articles reflect the research hotspots and trends.Related Researches needs to be improved in China.
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Objective To investigate the network information behavior characteristics of medical staff for improving the information service of hospital libraries.Methods The network information behaviors of medical staff were analyzed in aspects of the flow rate on Website, the number of off-station linkages, the times of page visiting, the time preference of users information behaviors, browsers, and access devices according to the Web log processed by Piwik analysis software.Results The information behaviors of medical staff were frequent.Their major objective was to use the electronic resources.The information behaviors of medical staff were focused on their working time.Conclusion Hospital libraries should strengthen the construction of their Website contents, optimize their Website design, update their information and improve their information service according to the time preference of their users information behaviors.