A Bibliometric Analysis of Wearable Device Research Trends 2001-2022-A Study on the Reversal of Number of Publications and Research Trends in China and the USA

Itsuki Kageyama; Karin Kurata; Shuto Miyashita; Yeongjoo Lim; Shintaro Sengoku; Kota Kodama

doi:10.3390/ijerph192416427

A Bibliometric Analysis of Wearable Device Research Trends 2001-2022-A Study on the Reversal of Number of Publications and Research Trends in China and the USA

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Dec 7;19(24):16427. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192416427.

Authors

Itsuki Kageyama¹, Karin Kurata¹, Shuto Miyashita², Yeongjoo Lim¹, Shintaro Sengoku², Kota Kodama^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Graduate School of Technology Management, Ritsumeikan University, 2-150 Iwakuracho, Ibaraki 567-8570, Japan.
² School of Environment and Society, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 108-0023, Japan.
³ Center for Research and Education on Drug Discovery, The Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan.

Abstract

In recent years, Wearable Devices have been used in a wide variety of applications and fields, but because they span so many different disciplines, it is difficult to ascertain the intellectual structure of this entire research domain. No review encompasses the whole research domain related to Wearable Devices. In this study, we collected articles on wearable devices from 2001 to 2022 and quantitatively organized them by bibliometric analysis to clarify the intellectual structure of this research domain as a whole. The cluster analysis, co-occurrence analysis, and network centrality analysis were conducted on articles collected from the Web of Science. As a result, we identified one cluster that represents applied research and two clusters that represent basic research in this research domain. Furthermore, focusing on the top two countries contributing to this research domain, China and the USA., it was confirmed that China is extremely inclined toward basic research and the USA. toward applied research, indicating that applied and basic research are in balance. The basic intellectual structure of this cross-sectional research domain was identified. The results summarize the current state of research related to Wearable Devices and provide insight into trends.

Keywords: bibliometric analysis; cluster analysis; co-occurrence analysis; wearable device.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Bibliometrics*
China
Cluster Analysis
Cross-Sectional Studies
Publications
Wearable Electronic Devices*

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan [grant number JPMEERF20193005, 2019]. The funding source had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or manuscript preparation.