Background
Methods
Data source
Scientometrics
Data analysis
Growth rate
Results
Periods | Total papers | Total major MeSH terms | Total frequency of major MeSH terms | Total major MeSH terms with high frequency (n, %) | Total frequency of major MeSH terms with high frequency (n, %) |
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1999 to 2003 | 2453 | 1362 | 9492 | 27 (1.98) | 4583 (48.28) | 34.57 |
2004 to 2008 | 3521 | 1792 | 13989 | 41 (2.29) | 7061 (50.47) | 39.43 |
2009–2014 | 4729 | 2093 | 19214 | 64 (3.06) | 10366 (53.95) | 41.83 |
Total | 10703 | 5247 | 42695 | 132 (2.52) | 22010 (51.76) | —— |
Year | Records | Cumulative | RGR | Dt |
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1999 | 392 | 392 | — | — |
2000 | 414 | 806 | 0.72 | 0.96 |
2001 | 474 | 1280 | 0.46 | 1.50 |
2002 | 550 | 1830 | 0.36 | 1.94 |
2003 | 623 | 2453 | 0.29 | 2.37 |
2004 | 535 | 2988 | 0.20 | 3.51 |
2005 | 644 | 3632 | 0.20 | 3.55 |
2006 | 627 | 4259 | 0.16 | 4.35 |
2007 | 798 | 5057 | 0.17 | 4.04 |
2008 | 918 | 5975 | 0.17 | 4.16 |
2009 | 846 | 6821 | 0.13 | 5.23 |
2010 | 825 | 7646 | 0.11 | 6.07 |
2011 | 765 | 8411 | 0.10 | 7.27 |
2012 | 831 | 9242 | 0.09 | 7.36 |
2013 | 788 | 10030 | 0.08 | 8.47 |
2014 | 674 | 10704 | 0.07 | 10.66 |
Knowledge structure and research topic analysis
Centralization | 1999 to 2003 | 2004 to 2008 | 2009 to 2014 | |
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Degree | Mean ± SD | 266.00 ± 417.66 | 290.05 ± 516.42 | 300.56 ± 477.66 |
Min | 66.00 | 54.00 | 62.00 | |
Max | 2160.00 | 3239.00 | 2561.00 | |
Betweenness | Mean ± SD | 3.93 ± 3.54 | 7.54 ± 7.27 | 14.19 ± 16.86 |
Min | 0.37 | 0.87 | 0.69 | |
Max | 11.15 | 25.87 | 59.90 | |
Closeness | Mean ± SD | 33.85 ± 4.55 | 55.07 ± 7.08 | 91.38 ± 12.53 |
Min | 26.00 | 40.00 | 63.00 | |
Max | 41.00 | 65.00 | 111.00 | |
Network Centralization (%) | 19.77 | 19.09 | 13.04 |
Knowledge structure of the time period from 1999–2003
Rank | Major MeSH Terms | Frequency | Percentage (%) | Degree | Betweenness | Closeness |
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1 | Physicians, Family | 1759 | 18.53 | 2160.00 | 11.15 | 26.00 |
2 | Attitude of Health Personnel | 463 | 4.88 | 871.00 | 11.15 | 26.00 |
3 | Family Practice | 425 | 4.48 | 674.00 | 11.15 | 26.00 |
4 | Primary Health Care | 275 | 2.90 | 415.00 | 11.15 | 26.00 |
5 | Physician’s Practice Patterns | 233 | 2.45 | 444.00 | 9.77 | 27.00 |
6 | Physician–Patient Relations | 154 | 1.62 | 253.00 | 3.70 | 33.00 |
7 | Clinical Competence | 121 | 1.27 | 215.00 | 2.43 | 34.00 |
8 | Education, Medical, Continuing | 121 | 1.27 | 196.00 | 2.82 | 33.00 |
9 | Physician’s Role | 110 | 1.16 | 176.00 | 4.18 | 33.00 |
10 | Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice | 94 | 0.99 | 184.00 | 5.11 | 30.00 |
11 | Rural Health Services | 80 | 0.84 | 161.00 | 3.02 | 37.00 |
12 | Referral and Consultation | 76 | 0.80 | 138.00 | 4.63 | 31.00 |
13 | Practice Guidelines as Topic | 71 | 0.75 | 103.00 | 1.02 | 38.00 |
14 | Nurse Practitioners | 50 | 0.53 | 103.00 | 1.12 | 37.00 |
15 | Attitude to Health | 49 | 0.52 | 97.00 | 1.43 | 38.00 |
16 | Mass Screening | 48 | 0.51 | 92.00 | 1.43 | 39.00 |
17 | Patient Satisfaction | 48 | 0.51 | 86.00 | 0.83 | 40.00 |
18 | Interprofessional Relations | 45 | 0.47 | 79.00 | 3.56 | 33.00 |
19 | Drug Prescriptions | 45 | 0.47 | 77.00 | 1.11 | 37.00 |
20 | Internship and Residency | 44 | 0.46 | 88.00 | 2.22 | 36.00 |
21 | Communication | 42 | 0.44 | 94.00 | 1.52 | 35.00 |
22 | Specialization | 41 | 0.43 | 68.00 | 4.21 | 33.00 |
23 | Professional Practice Location | 39 | 0.41 | 103.00 | 1.29 | 39.00 |
24 | Job Satisfaction | 39 | 0.41 | 66.00 | 0.37 | 41.00 |
25 | Patient Education as Topic | 39 | 0.41 | 74.00 | 2.07 | 33.00 |
26 | Neoplasms | 36 | 0.38 | 81.00 | 2.76 | 34.00 |
27 | Career Choice | 36 | 0.38 | 84.00 | 0.83 | 39.00 |
Knowledge structure of the time period from 2004–2008
Rank | Major MeSH Terms | Frequency | Percentage (%) | Degree | Betweenness | Closeness |
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1 | Physicians, Family | 2424 | 17.33 | 3239.00 | 25.87 | 40.00 |
2 | Attitude of Health Personnel | 503 | 3.60 | 1017.00 | 25.87 | 40.00 |
3 | Family Practice | 495 | 3.54 | 840.00 | 24.38 | 41.00 |
4 | Primary Health Care | 455 | 3.25 | 732.00 | 23.30 | 41.00 |
5 | Physician’s Practice Patterns | 401 | 2.87 | 736.00 | 19.41 | 43.00 |
6 | Physician–Patient Relations | 277 | 1.98 | 528.00 | 19.50 | 44.00 |
7 | Physician’s Role | 148 | 1.06 | 237.00 | 8.66 | 52.00 |
8 | Clinical Competence | 144 | 1.03 | 282.00 | 13.47 | 47.00 |
9 | Referral and Consultation | 141 | 1.01 | 253.00 | 9.37 | 50.00 |
10 | Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice | 140 | 1.00 | 268.00 | 9.60 | 50.00 |
11 | Education, Medical, Continuing | 118 | 0.84 | 249.00 | 15.94 | 47.00 |
12 | Rural Health Services | 108 | 0.77 | 190.00 | 3.02 | 59.00 |
13 | Practice Guidelines as Topic | 99 | 0.71 | 221.00 | 3.16 | 59.00 |
14 | Patient Satisfaction | 87 | 0.62 | 184.00 | 5.83 | 55.00 |
15 | Drug Prescriptions | 84 | 0.60 | 154.00 | 4.45 | 58.00 |
16 | Health Services Accessibility | 80 | 0.57 | 113.00 | 2.98 | 61.00 |
17 | Specialization | 79 | 0.56 | 195.00 | 7.38 | 53.00 |
18 | Communication | 72 | 0.51 | 164.00 | 7.99 | 53.00 |
19 | Delivery of Health Care | 71 | 0.51 | 98.00 | 5.29 | 56.00 |
20 | Mass Screening | 69 | 0.49 | 143.00 | 5.06 | 55.00 |
21 | Guideline Adherence | 61 | 0.44 | 147.00 | 5.73 | 56.00 |
22 | Quality of Health Care | 57 | 0.41 | 109.00 | 3.24 | 59.00 |
23 | Mental Disorders | 57 | 0.41 | 113.00 | 3.09 | 58.00 |
24 | Internship and Residency | 57 | 0.41 | 88.00 | 1.77 | 62.00 |
25 | Career Choice | 56 | 0.40 | 127.00 | 1.94 | 63.00 |
26 | Asthma | 55 | 0.39 | 95.00 | 3.26 | 59.00 |
27 | Neoplasms | 55 | 0.39 | 104.00 | 1.01 | 62.00 |
28 | Job Satisfaction | 54 | 0.39 | 115.00 | 1.80 | 63.00 |
29 | Attitude to Health | 54 | 0.39 | 111.00 | 4.30 | 58.00 |
30 | Patient Education as Topic | 54 | 0.39 | 104.00 | 3.32 | 57.00 |
31 | Medicine | 53 | 0.38 | 150.00 | 3.67 | 59.00 |
32 | Decision Making | 52 | 0.37 | 105.00 | 11.01 | 51.00 |
33 | Depression | 51 | 0.36 | 90.00 | 2.22 | 61.00 |
34 | Medical Records Systems, Computerized | 49 | 0.35 | 70.00 | 1.04 | 65.00 |
35 | Questionnaires | 47 | 0.34 | 87.00 | 2.06 | 62.00 |
36 | Hypertension | 46 | 0.33 | 82.00 | 3.03 | 58.00 |
37 | Anti-Bacterial Agents | 45 | 0.32 | 81.00 | 0.87 | 65.00 |
38 | Interprofessional Relations | 42 | 0.30 | 80.00 | 4.27 | 59.00 |
39 | Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 | 41 | 0.29 | 63.00 | 3.00 | 61.00 |
40 | Physicians | 40 | 0.29 | 54.00 | 4.38 | 58.00 |
41 | Cardiovascular Diseases | 40 | 0.29 | 74.00 | 3.44 | 58.00 |
Knowledge structure of the time period from 2009–2014
Rank | Major MeSH Terms | Frequency | Percentage (%) | Degree | Betweenness | Closeness |
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1 | General Practitioners | 1727 | 8.99 | 2561.00 | 59.90 | 63.00 |
2 | Physicians, Family | 1688 | 8.79 | 2543.00 | 59.90 | 63.00 |
3 | Attitude of Health Personnel | 609 | 3.17 | 1326.00 | 57.54 | 64.00 |
4 | Primary Health Care | 608 | 3.16 | 1125.00 | 55.85 | 64.00 |
5 | Physician′s Practice Patterns | 527 | 2.74 | 1068.00 | 58.76 | 64.00 |
6 | Family Practice | 413 | 2.15 | 804.00 | 49.72 | 66.00 |
7 | Physician-Patient Relations | 310 | 1.61 | 701.00 | 42.21 | 69.00 |
8 | General Practice | 289 | 1.50 | 561.00 | 52.99 | 66.00 |
9 | Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice | 249 | 1.30 | 499.00 | 32.81 | 74.00 |
10 | Clinical Competence | 222 | 1.16 | 450.00 | 28.72 | 77.00 |
11 | Physician′s Role | 197 | 1.03 | 378.00 | 23.38 | 80.00 |
12 | Referral and Consultation | 178 | 0.93 | 362.00 | 33.29 | 74.00 |
13 | Education, Medical, Continuing | 137 | 0.71 | 285.00 | 15.35 | 86.00 |
14 | Practice Guidelines as Topic | 106 | 0.55 | 237.00 | 10.99 | 89.00 |
15 | Delivery of Health Care | 101 | 0.53 | 191.00 | 17.51 | 85.00 |
16 | Neoplasms | 99 | 0.52 | 190.00 | 3.61 | 99.00 |
17 | Quality of Health Care | 94 | 0.49 | 210.00 | 14.98 | 87.00 |
18 | State Medicine | 94 | 0.49 | 143.00 | 4.73 | 99.00 |
19 | Patient Satisfaction | 90 | 0.47 | 203.00 | 15.44 | 85.00 |
20 | Communication | 90 | 0.47 | 222.00 | 13.09 | 88.00 |
21 | Rural Health Services | 89 | 0.46 | 177.00 | 14.31 | 87.00 |
22 | Health Services Accessibility | 85 | 0.44 | 154.00 | 9.62 | 95.00 |
23 | Continuity of Patient Care | 81 | 0.42 | 181.00 | 11.77 | 89.00 |
24 | Interprofessional Relations | 80 | 0.42 | 193.00 | 9.94 | 89.00 |
25 | Decision Making | 79 | 0.41 | 161.00 | 10.51 | 89.00 |
26 | Mass Screening | 75 | 0.39 | 134.00 | 4.40 | 99.00 |
27 | Health Care Reform | 74 | 0.39 | 135.00 | 5.75 | 98.00 |
28 | Guideline Adherence | 72 | 0.37 | 172.00 | 7.53 | 96.00 |
29 | Pharmacists | 72 | 0.37 | 140.00 | 3.69 | 98.00 |
30 | Drug Prescriptions | 72 | 0.37 | 150.00 | 5.23 | 100.00 |
31 | Mental Disorders | 69 | 0.36 | 126.00 | 5.18 | 99.00 |
32 | Depression | 66 | 0.34 | 125.00 | 5.07 | 97.00 |
33 | Internship and Residency | 65 | 0.34 | 161.00 | 15.31 | 88.00 |
34 | Education, Medical, Graduate | 65 | 0.34 | 142.00 | 3.29 | 102.00 |
35 | Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 | 63 | 0.33 | 116.00 | 7.15 | 93.00 |
36 | Patient Education as Topic | 60 | 0.31 | 121.00 | 7.81 | 92.00 |
37 | Palliative Care | 58 | 0.30 | 126.00 | 4.89 | 95.00 |
38 | Quality Assurance, Health Care | 57 | 0.30 | 134.00 | 9.93 | 93.00 |
39 | Cooperative Behavior | 57 | 0.30 | 129.00 | 8.02 | 93.00 |
40 | Cardiovascular Diseases | 57 | 0.30 | 116.00 | 6.09 | 96.00 |
41 | Career Choice | 55 | 0.29 | 121.00 | 2.13 | 105.00 |
42 | Asthma | 54 | 0.28 | 103.00 | 3.48 | 98.00 |
43 | Health Promotion | 53 | 0.28 | 101.00 | 4.38 | 101.00 |
44 | Patient Acceptance of Health Care | 53 | 0.28 | 87.00 | 6.48 | 97.00 |
45 | Hypertension | 52 | 0.27 | 88.00 | 4.52 | 99.00 |
46 | Teaching | 50 | 0.26 | 117.00 | 2.943 | 102 |
47 | Anti-Bacterial Agents | 50 | 0.26 | 98.00 | 1.736 | 107 |
48 | Health Services Needs and Demand | 50 | 0.26 | 98.00 | 2.462 | 101 |
49 | Questionnaires | 50 | 0.26 | 95.00 | 3.93 | 98 |
50 | Dementia | 49 | 0.26 | 108.00 | 3.253 | 100 |
51 | Burnout, Professional | 48 | 0.25 | 87.00 | 1.536 | 108 |
52 | Job Satisfaction | 47 | 0.24 | 101.00 | 3.519 | 103 |
53 | Attitude to Health | 47 | 0.24 | 114.00 | 10.509 | 92 |
54 | Obesity | 47 | 0.24 | 105.00 | 2.257 | 103 |
55 | Patient-Centered Care | 45 | 0.23 | 96.00 | 5.864 | 98 |
56 | Specialization | 45 | 0.23 | 88.00 | 5.777 | 99 |
57 | Influenza, Human | 45 | 0.23 | 62.00 | 0.687 | 111 |
58 | Emergency Service, Hospital | 45 | 0.23 | 76.00 | 3.227 | 102 |
59 | Physicians | 44 | 0.23 | 88.00 | 14.455 | 88 |
60 | Faculty, Medical | 43 | 0.22 | 95.00 | 3.587 | 101 |
61 | Internet | 43 | 0.22 | 82.00 | 5.688 | 98 |
62 | Students, Medical | 43 | 0.22 | 110.00 | 4.547 | 101 |
63 | Patients | 42 | 0.22 | 98.00 | 3.681 | 101 |
64 | Electronic Health Records | 42 | 0.22 | 66.00 | 1.117 | 105 |