Bibliometric analysis of papers on case management from Web of Science / 现代临床护理

ABSTRACT

Objective To search the Web of Science for the papers related to case management to understand the present situation and direction of case management. Methods Papers on case management were retrieved in the Web of Science from 1999 to 2017.The Web of Science and excel were used to analyze the publication years, research themes, journals, countries and institutes. Results Totally,970 articles were included,with a sum of cited times,12,075.The number of publications on the case management was going up. Most of the authors were from the USA and China was ranked at 7 in authorship. Most of the papers concerned the research in chronic diseases such as chronic heart failure,mental disease and HIV. Conclusions Case management has been widely researched in the developed countries.China still has a lot of room for improvement in the study.The future research should be focused on the establishment of case manager training,multidisciplinary combination,case management mode suitable for chronic disease and aging population and exploration of the mode's effectiveness.