To, W.M. and Lee, Peter K. C. (2023). mHealth and COVID-19: A Bibliometric Study. Healthcare, 11 (8),
Abstract
mHealth, i.e., using mobile computing and communication technologies in health care, has played an increasingly important role in the provision of medical care and undertaking self-health monitoring and management in the past two decades. Specifically, it becomes critically important for health care delivery when governments have been forced to impose quarantines and lockdowns during the spikes in COVID-19 cases. Therefore, this research focuses on academic publications including journal articles, reviews, and conference papers on the use of mHealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a keyword search on “mHealth” (or “mobile health”) and “COVID-19” on 7 January 2023 in Scopus, it was found that 1125 documents were officially published between 2020 and 2022. Among these 1125 documents, 1042 documents were journal articles, reviews, and conference papers. Researchers in the US produced 335 articles, followed by UK researchers with 119 articles, and Chinese researchers with 79 articles. Researchers affiliated with Harvard Medical School published the largest number of articles (31), followed by researchers of University College London with 21 articles and Massachusetts General Hospital with 20 articles. Co-occurrence of keywords analysis revealed four clusters, namely “COVID-19, mHealth, mobile applications, and public health”, “adult, adolescent, mental health, and major clinical study”, “human, pandemic, and epidemiology”, and “telemedicine, telehealth, and health care delivery”. Implications of this study are given.</jats:p>
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11081163 |
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Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Operations & Information Management College of Business and Social Sciences College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School |
Funding Information: | National Institutes of Health National Center for Advancing Tran. Sci. National Institute of Mental Health Canadian Institutes of Health Research Horizon 2020 Framework Programme National Natural Science Foundation of Canada Bundesministerium fur Bildung |
Additional Information: | © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | COVID-19,China,bibliometric analysis,mHealth,Health Information Management,Health Policy,Health Informatics,Leadership and Management |
Publication ISSN: | 2227-9032 |
Last Modified: | 06 Aug 2024 09:57 |
Date Deposited: | 11 Dec 2023 13:37 |
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PURE Output Type: | Review article |
Published Date: | 2023-04-18 |
Accepted Date: | 2023-04-17 |
Authors: |
To, W.M.
Lee, Peter K. C. ( ![]() |