Mapping Research Trends on the Implications of Telemedicine for Healthcare Professionals: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Data Collection
2.2. Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria
2.3. Screening Process
2.4. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Data Description
3.2. Global Publication Trends
3.3. Most Relevant Journals, Articles, Countries and Affiliations
3.4. Most Relevant Words and Frequency over Time
3.5. Co-Word Analysis
3.6. Thematic Analysis
4. Discussion
Implications for Practice
5. Conclusions
6. Suggestions for Future Research
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Dataset Features | ||
---|---|---|
General information | Timespan | 2001:2023 |
Journals | 119 | |
Documents | 160 | |
Annual growth rate (%) | 14.46 | |
Average citations per document | 14.03 | |
Average citations per year per doc | 3.83 | |
References | 4895 | |
Document contents | Author’s keywords | 600 |
Authors | Authors | 905 |
n | Highest Percentile (Source: Scopus) | |
---|---|---|
Journal of Medical Internet Research | 10 | Health Informatics |
BMC Health Services Research | 7 | Health Policy |
International Journal of Environmental Research And Public Health | 6 | / |
BMC Medical Informatics And Decision Making | 4 | / |
BMJ Open | 3 | General Medicine |
Plos One | 3 | Multidisciplinary |
Telemedicine Reports | 3 | Medicine (miscellaneous) |
Australian Journal of Primary Health | 2 | / |
Frontiers in Digital Health | 2 | / |
Health Informatics Journal | 2 | Health Informatics |
Ranking | Article | Number of Citations | Number of Citations per Year |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Hennemann et al. [33] | 123 | 15.38 |
2 | Katzman et al. [34] | 94 | 8.55 |
3 | Villani et al. [35] | 85 | 7.08 |
4 | Maguire et al. [36] | 81 | 8.1 |
5 | Moeckli et al. [37] | 71 | 1.39 |
6 | Vehko et al. [38] | 67 | 11.16 |
7 | Srinivasan et al. [39] | 62 | 12.4 |
8 | Bolier et al. [40] | 61 | 5.54 |
9 | Grünloh et al. [41] | 55 | 6.11 |
10 | Ruiz Morilla et al. [42] | 54 | 6.75 |
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Bernuzzi, C.; Piccardo, M.A.; Guglielmetti, C. Mapping Research Trends on the Implications of Telemedicine for Healthcare Professionals: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis. Healthcare 2025, 13, 1149. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13101149
Bernuzzi C, Piccardo MA, Guglielmetti C. Mapping Research Trends on the Implications of Telemedicine for Healthcare Professionals: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis. Healthcare. 2025; 13(10):1149. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13101149
Chicago/Turabian StyleBernuzzi, Chiara, Maria Adele Piccardo, and Chiara Guglielmetti. 2025. "Mapping Research Trends on the Implications of Telemedicine for Healthcare Professionals: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis" Healthcare 13, no. 10: 1149. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13101149
APA StyleBernuzzi, C., Piccardo, M. A., & Guglielmetti, C. (2025). Mapping Research Trends on the Implications of Telemedicine for Healthcare Professionals: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis. Healthcare, 13(10), 1149. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13101149