Current Status and Hotspot Analysis of Illness Perception Research Based on Bibliometrics
Li Xinyi
Chen Jing
Li Mingfang
Xie Yantong
Yan Jun
Abstract：OBJECTIVE To apply bibliometric methods to analyse the current status and hotspots of research in the field of illness perception at China and abroad,and to provide a reference for future research.METHODS PubMed,Web of Science,EMbase,Wanfang database,SinoMed and CNKI database were selected for literature search by combining database search and manual search.SATI software and VOS viewer software were used to analyse the distribution of publication time,issuing countries,institutions,authors,journal sources,distribution,discipline distribution and keywords of illness perception.distribution,discipline distribution and keyword distribution.The search time was from beginning to September 2023.RESULTS A total of 954 Chinese and English literatures on illness perception were retrieved.In recent years,the overall trend of illness perception related research in China and abroad had been on the rise,and the United Kingdom was the country with the largest number of published illness perception related literatures.The author with the most publications was from Leiden University in the Netherlands,and the authors with more publications in Chinese literature were from universities or affiliated hospitals.Journal of Psychosomatic Research in the UK was the most published journal in the field of illness perception(27 articles).The research areas of the English literature mainly focus on psychosomatic psychology,public health and oncology,while the Chinese literature mainly focuses on nursing,psychology and cardiovascular system diseases.Issues of interest in domestic and international research related to illness perception can be broadly classified into three categories:variables and questionnaires related to disease perception,types of diseases,and health-related outcomes.CONCLUSION The present number of research literature on disease perception domestically and internationally shows an overall growth trend,but the core authors and academic exchange and cooperation in China are still insufficient,which suggests that it needs to pay more attention to the scientific research results of the core author team and strengthen academic exchange and cooperation at both national and international levels.
Keywords：illness perceptionbibliometry
Publication Date：2024-08-10
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 17-21 )