Abstract
The current status of the research of Ballistocardiography (BCG) and Seismocardiogram (SCG) in the field of medical treatment, health care and nursing was analyzed systematically, and the important direction in the research was explored, to provide reference for the relevant researches. This study, based on two large databases, CNKI and PubMed, used the bibliometric analysis method to review the existing documents in the past 20 years, and made analyses on the literature of BCG and SCG for their annual changes, main countries/regions, types of research, frequently-used subject words, and important research subjects. The results show that the developed countries have taken a leading position in the researches in this field, and have made breakthroughs in some subjects, but their research results have been mainly gained in the area of research and development of the technologies, and very few have been actually industrialized into commodities. This means that in the future the researchers should focus on the transformation of BCG and SCG technologies into commercialized products, and set up quantitative health assessment models, so as to become the daily tools for people to monitor their health status and manage their own health, and as the main approaches of improving the quality of life and preventing diseases for individuals.
Highlights
Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.This article is an open access articleFor the past 20 years, with the innovation of sensing technology [1], many new technologies have emerged in the academic circles, enabling scholars to expand their research fields extensively, and have the opportunities to make use of the technologies that were unable to get in-depth research due to technical limitations in the past
Technology in 2003, the number of literature in this field included in CNKI and PubMed databases has been on the rise, revealing that BCG/SCG technology has received more and more attention from the health care circles
The countries that contributed high quality papers were those with high level of application
Summary
For the past 20 years, with the innovation of sensing technology [1], many new technologies have emerged in the academic circles, enabling scholars to expand their research fields extensively, and have the opportunities to make use of the technologies that were unable to get in-depth research due to technical limitations in the past At this time, Ballistocardiography (BCG) and Seismocardiogram (SCG) technologies see their revival. The BCG signal records the movement of the heart as it pumps blood to shift the body’s center of gravity during the heart beating cycle. It is the indirect medium for interpretation creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).
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