Application of narrative medicine in medical education:a bibliometric analysis based on WoSCC
Li Mengyuan
Wu Fan
Zhang Xiurui
Abstract：Objective Medical education based on narrative medicine has received increasing attention recently.The present investigation endeavored to analyze the main characteristics of related articles and identify emerging research trends and hotspots.Methods Publications included were extracted from the Web of Science Core Collection(WoSCC)in August 2023.The search strategies were:[TS=(narrative medicine)or TS=(narrative based medicine)]AND[TS=(medical education)]AND[Document types=(article or review)]AND[Language=(English)].Bibliographic coupling,co-citation,and co-occurrence analysis were performed and visualized using VOSviewer.CiteSpace(6.1.R 2)served to visualize perform cluster analysis of co-cited keywords,and detect references and keywords with intense citation bursts.Results Medical education based on narrative medicine exhibited a steady annual escalation in scholarly outputs.The USA made the most contributions to this field,and Charon R was the prominent researcher.The highest volume of publications appeared in the journal Academic Medicine.Medical education and training,narrative medicine and humanities were research hotspots.Conclusion The study of narrative-medicine-based medical education is advancing rapidly.Extensive literature originates from the USA.In this field,Charon R has garnered the most frequent citations.Subsequent investigations will still focus on medical education and training,narrative medicine and medical humanities.
Keywords：narrative medicinemedical educationbibliometric analysisvisualization analysisresearch hotspots
Publication Date：2025-02-19
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：7( 146-152 )