Intellectual Structure of Health Care Finance through Data Mining

Abstract

Scientometrics is applied to analyse many articles's citation data and realize the paradigm shift of different countries's health care finance system. Bibliometrics is a set of methods to quantitatively analyze scientific and technological literature. The purpose of this study is to identify the evolution of the health care finance and to reveal a description of an intellectual structure. Within each discipline, journal articles, books, and monographs fill the fundamental role of storing and distributing information. This analysis reveals a wealth of information, for example the lists of highly-cited authors, books, and articles presented here. By analyzing 59,693 citations of 1,973 articles published in SSCI and SCI journals in the health care finance field from year 2002 to year 2011, this study maps the intellectual structure of health care finance studies and find the development of health care finance. After executing keyword analysis and tag cloud analysis, insurance, mortality, and developing-countries are the emerging topics in the health care finance field. The contribution of this study is to provide important insights and implications of health care finance. development. The aim of this study is to provide health care finance researchers with a unique map to better understand health care finance related publications and to provide a systematic and objective mapping of different themes and concepts in the development of Health care finance field. This study also attempts to help identify the lintellectual structure age among different publications and confirm their status and positions in their contribution to the development of health care field. Every discipline could be seen as a particular knowledge system that is a component of a more general knowledge system. Within each discipline, journal articles, books, and monographs fill the fundamental role of storing and distributing information. Of these three means of formal communication, journal articles are perhaps the most competitive and controversial. Consequently, citations that appear in articles published in the journals of a particular discipline provide an objective measure of the contributions of other knowledge systems to the development and progress of that particular discipline. Citations also give a relative measure of the particular contributions of authors, articles, and journals, to the progress of a particular field of knowledge. This analysis reveals a wealth of information, for example the lists of highly-cited authors, books, and articles presented here.