Information Technology in Healthcare in India: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Purpose – An analysis of information technology's use in Indian healthcare is done using bibliometric methods in this paper. We analysed related publications from the past ten years in an effort to offer both quantitative and qualitative observations. The purpose of this work is to emphasise the most important information by summarising the key publishing trends, performance & co-citation analysis, bibliographic coupling, and other scientific relation among entities.

Design/methodology/approach – This review studies 272 documents for bibliometric analysis, performance analysis, and topic clustering from the Scopus database. The researcher's goal in carrying out this activity is to examine the scientific productivity of publications, prolific authors, most influential articles, institutions, and countries, as well as keyword co-occurrence, thematic mapping, co-citations, authorship, and country collaborations. Performance analysis and topic clustering were carried out using VOS viewer as a research tool.

Findings – With 38 publications related to the research topic, 2020 is predicted to be the most fruitful year. The most impactful institute is the ‘London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’, U.K., and ‘India’ is identified as the country contributing to maximum amount of publication related to research topic. ‘The Lancet’ was the most influential journal with highest number of citations, and ‘PLOS ONE ‘& ‘BMC Health Services Research’ are the two most productive journal publishing maximum number of articles related to topic of research over the last decade. “Assuring health coverage for all in India” is the most cited research article of the all the shortlisted research papers. Seven different thematic clusters were identified to contribute towards the research topic.

Study Limitations – It provides information on the state of research on the use of information technology in healthcare in India and leads researchers in the right direction. It also indicates the future directions of this field's research.