Scientometric analysis of geriatrics education / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To analyze the current situation, research trends, and hotspots of geriatrics education in SCI database by scientometric measurement, and to draw a panoramic map of geriatrics teaching and research.Methods:The Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) database via Web of Science and made usual bibliometric analyses. The co-authorship networks across authors and institutions were studied by VOS viewer software, the research hotspots, the network of co-occurring keywords and the keyword co-occurrence cluster were analyzed using the keywords and the log-likelihood ratio (LLR) weighting algorithm to label the clusters.Results:This study included 645 papers. The teaching research of geriatrics is relatively less and the distribution is extremely uneven across countries. Most related papers are written by American scholars. In general, the study number is increasing over time but fluctuates greatly from year to year. Most relevant studies are conducted by authors in the USA. The University of California System, Icahn School Medicine at Mount Sinai, and State University System of Florida are the most productive institutions. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Gerontologist, Educational Gerontology are the core journals. Simpson D, Denson K, and Clark PG are the most productive authors. The research hotspots is involving over time, and such directions as "curriculum tutor", "global collaboration", and "new curriculum initiation" are the current research hotspots, which have been cited more than 200 times.Conclusion:This study depicts a panoramic map of the international geriatric teaching research, which would provide valuable reference for subsequent related research.