Affiliations: [a]
Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health Sciences, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey
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Department of Health Care Services, Şavşat Vocational School, Artvin Çoruh University, Artvin, Turkey
| [c]
Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey
Correspondence:
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Address for correspondence: Sedat Yiğit, Üniversite Bulvarı 27310 Şehitkâmil – Gaziantep, Türkiye. E-mail [email protected]; ORCID: 0000-0001-7134-8379.
Note: [1] ORCID: 0000-0003-2771-9587.
Note: [2] ORCID: 0000-0001-9108-3216.
Abstract: BACKGROUND:The concept of ergonomics in health services is attracting significant attention in the scientific community. There is a need for an integrated study presenting a summary of the published literature backed by detailed bibliometric characteristics. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study is to provide a summary of the published literature supported by detailed bibliometric properties. METHODS:Within the scope of this study, a total of 3008 articles on ergonomics in the health field were reviewed and analyzed using a bibliometric method. RESULTS:It reveals the trends of the publications conducted between 1999–2023, and defines the common citation structure between the articles, bibliographic coupling, and keyword co-occurrences. This study presents a knowledge map of ergonomics studies conducted in the health field using a bibliometric analysis method. CONCLUSION:The research results provide comprehensive information to the relevant literature, and define global research focuses and future scopes. This serves as a guide for academics to understand developments in the field of ergonomics and health more easily and quickly.
Keywords: VOSviewer, content analysis, web of science, health sciences, publication analysis
DOI: 10.3233/WOR-230367
Journal: Work, vol. 79, no. 3, pp. 1369-1378, 2024
