Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Rapid urbanisation and poor city planning exposed the urban population to hazards and risk which lead to poor health outcomes. This paper aims to provide an overview of the global research trends and to evaluate the urban health research outputs by countries, institutions, authors, collaborations, highly cited papers and popular issues in this research field. METHODS: The bibliometrics data for this paper is derived from the Scopus database. For ease of analysis, publications published in 2019 were excluded. The publications outputs ware explored over time and analysed to summarize the overall research characteristics. RESULTS: The systematic search identified 10,331 documents related to urban health. The number of publications was stagnant until the 1960s and then increased steadily. The United States was the most active country working in the field of urban health followed by the United Kingdom and China. The three most leading institutions were Columbia University, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The three most active journals were Journal of Urban Health, American Journal of Public Health and Social Science and Medicine, whereas the top three prominent authors are Kruger A, Delany-Moretlwe S, and Steyn K. The most common authors keywords in the publications were urban health, mental health, and epidemiology. DISCUSSION: We came to an understanding that there is dearth in the number of publications over various regions. More efforts are needed on urban health research in particular at the area of rapid conurbation.
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@proceedings{APCPH-2019-180,
title = {Global Landscape of Urban Health Research: A Bibliometric Analysis},
author = {Mohd Faiz Ibrahim and Haidar Rizal Toha and Shaharom Nor Azian Che Mat Din},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-07-22},
urldate = {2019-07-22},
journal = {6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health 2019 Proceedings},
issue = {6},
abstract = {INTRODUCTION: Rapid urbanisation and poor city planning exposed the urban population to hazards and risk which lead to poor health outcomes. This paper aims to provide an overview of the global research trends and to evaluate the urban health research outputs by countries, institutions, authors, collaborations, highly cited papers and popular issues in this research field. METHODS: The bibliometrics data for this paper is derived from the Scopus database. For ease of analysis, publications published in 2019 were excluded. The publications outputs ware explored over time and analysed to summarize the overall research characteristics. RESULTS: The systematic search identified 10,331 documents related to urban health. The number of publications was stagnant until the 1960s and then increased steadily. The United States was the most active country working in the field of urban health followed by the United Kingdom and China. The three most leading institutions were Columbia University, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The three most active journals were Journal of Urban Health, American Journal of Public Health and Social Science and Medicine, whereas the top three prominent authors are Kruger A, Delany-Moretlwe S, and Steyn K. The most common authors keywords in the publications were urban health, mental health, and epidemiology. DISCUSSION: We came to an understanding that there is dearth in the number of publications over various regions. More efforts are needed on urban health research in particular at the area of rapid conurbation.},
note = {Type: POSTER PRESENTATION; Organisation: Public Health Division, Johor State Department of Health, Malaysia},
keywords = {Bibliometric analysis, urban health, urban population},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}