Lin, A. orcid.org/0000-0003-2331-083X, Ford, N. orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-7332 and Willett, P. (2024) Scholarly communication between health informatics and information systems: a bibliometric study. Health Informatics Journal, 30 (2). ISSN 1460-4582
Abstract
The challenges of IT adoption in the healthcare sector have generated much interest across a range of research communities, including Information Systems (IS) and Health Informatics (HI). Given their long-standing interest in IT design, development, implementation, and adoption to improve productivity and support organisational transformation, the IS and HI fields are highly correlated in their research interests. Nevertheless, the two fields serve different academic audiences, have different research foci, and theorise IT artifacts differently. We investigate the dyadic relationship between health information systems (HIS) research in IS and HI through the communication patterns between the two fields. We present the citation analysis results of HIS research published in IS and HI journals between 2000 and 2020. The results revealed that despite the two fields sharing a common interest, communication between them is limited and only about specific topics. Potentially relevant ideas and theories generated in IS have not yet been sufficiently recognised by HI scholars and incorporated into the HI literature. However, the upward trend of HIS publications in IS indicates that IS has the potential to contribute more to HI.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2024. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | citation analysis; dyadic relationship; health informatics; healthcare information systems; information systems research; Humans; Bibliometrics; Medical Informatics; Scholarly Communication; Information Systems |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Information School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2024 09:39 |
Last Modified: | 04 Jul 2024 09:39 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14604582241259331 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/14604582241259331 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:214186 |