Crowdsourcing Applied in the Field of Public Health: A Bibliometric Perspective

摘要

Crowdsourcing has been widely adopted in many fields, but there is no study on summarizing how crowdsourcing applies to public health. Applying bibliometric method, this paper explores the time-scope, country and institution, published journals, emerging trends, and citation cluster analysis of crowdsourcing applying to public health. The results show that American scholars lead in the crowdsourcing application research; research object of crowdsourcing application has been gradually diversified and crowdsourcing is widely used to analyze the issues such as health communication, preventive medicine and epidemiology, etc.