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A Bibliometric Analysis of the Health Field Regarding Social Networks and Young People

Social networks have historically been used to share information and support regarding health-related topics, and this usage has increased with the rise of online social media. Young people are high users of social media, both as passive listeners and as active contributors. This study aimed to map...

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Autores principales: Aparicio-Martinez, Pilar, Perea-Moreno, Alberto-Jesus, Martinez-Jimenez, María Pilar, Redel-Macías, María Dolores, Vaquero-Abellan, Manuel, Pagliari, Claudia
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Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6843989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31640168
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16204024
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author Aparicio-Martinez, Pilar
Perea-Moreno, Alberto-Jesus
Martinez-Jimenez, María Pilar
Redel-Macías, María Dolores
Vaquero-Abellan, Manuel
Pagliari, Claudia
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Perea-Moreno, Alberto-Jesus
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Redel-Macías, María Dolores
Vaquero-Abellan, Manuel
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description Social networks have historically been used to share information and support regarding health-related topics, and this usage has increased with the rise of online social media. Young people are high users of social media, both as passive listeners and as active contributors. This study aimed to map the trends in publications focused on social networks, health, and young people over the last 40 years. Scopus and the program VOSviewer were used to map the frequency of the publications, keywords, and clusters of researchers active in the field internationally. A structured keyword search using the Scopus database yielded 11,966 publications. The results reveal a long history of research on social networks, health, and young people. Research articles were the most common type of publication (68%), most of which described quantitative studies (82%). The main discipline represented in this literature was medicine, with 6062 documents. North American researchers dominate the field, both as authors and partners in international research collaborations. The present article adds to the literature by elucidating the growing importance of social networks in health research as a topic of study. This may help to inform future investments in public health research and surveillance using these novel data sources.
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spelling pubmed-68439892019-11-18 A Bibliometric Analysis of the Health Field Regarding Social Networks and Young People Aparicio-Martinez, Pilar Perea-Moreno, Alberto-Jesus Martinez-Jimenez, María Pilar Redel-Macías, María Dolores Vaquero-Abellan, Manuel Pagliari, Claudia Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Social networks have historically been used to share information and support regarding health-related topics, and this usage has increased with the rise of online social media. Young people are high users of social media, both as passive listeners and as active contributors. This study aimed to map the trends in publications focused on social networks, health, and young people over the last 40 years. Scopus and the program VOSviewer were used to map the frequency of the publications, keywords, and clusters of researchers active in the field internationally. A structured keyword search using the Scopus database yielded 11,966 publications. The results reveal a long history of research on social networks, health, and young people. Research articles were the most common type of publication (68%), most of which described quantitative studies (82%). The main discipline represented in this literature was medicine, with 6062 documents. North American researchers dominate the field, both as authors and partners in international research collaborations. The present article adds to the literature by elucidating the growing importance of social networks in health research as a topic of study. This may help to inform future investments in public health research and surveillance using these novel data sources. MDPI 2019-10-21 2019-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6843989/ /pubmed/31640168 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16204024 Text en © 2019 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 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6843989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31640168
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16204024
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