A comparative analysis of research hotspots in domestic and American medical informatics based on Web of Science / 中华医学图书情报杂志

ABSTRACT

Papers on medical informatics published in China and USA in the past 10 years were analyzed by co-word analysis using TDA and SPSS 20.0 respectively with Web of Science-covered core collection as the data source and the distribution of key words in the papers was analyzed by Ucinet and NetDraw respectively to mine the research hotspots, which showed consistencies and differences in medical informatics of the two countries.The con-sistencies were demonstrated in application of computer technologies in hospital management and clinical diagnosis and treatment while the differences were revealed in higher level of medical informatics, fuller use of medical infor-mation and data, the more perfection of medical informatics education system, and the higher level of EBM research in USA than in China.