Abstract
ABSTRACT Healthcare management (HCM) has attracted significant attention from scholars and practitioners, and decision-making (DM) is always perceived as a crucial managerial function. This paper attempts to explore the trend and structure of DM research in the field of HCM (DM-HCM) by conducting a bibliometric analysis of publications from 1998 to 2021. A total of 581 documents covering all the available evidence are retrieved from the Web of Science (WoS) core collection. First, a descriptive performance analysis is performed based on widely accepted bibliometric indicators, followed by identifying primary contributors in the research community. Then, a science mapping analysis is implemented to discover the structural connections among different research constituents using three visualization tools, namely, VoS viewer, CiteSpace, and Bibliometrix. The citation-related and co-authorship networks are analyzed to explore the intellectual structure of the bibliometric corpus. Moreover, the keyword co-occurrence, timeline view, and evolution analysis enrich the understanding of thematic clusters and identify the DM-HCM research focus. Finally, the main findings are summarized, and possible research directions are proposed.
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