Analytical mapping of information and communication technology in emerging infectious diseases using CiteSpace

Sandeep Kumar Sood; Keshav Singh Rawat; Dheeraj Kumar

doi:10.1016/j.tele.2022.101796

Analytical mapping of information and communication technology in emerging infectious diseases using CiteSpace

Telemat Inform. 2022 Apr:69:101796. doi: 10.1016/j.tele.2022.101796. Epub 2022 Mar 8.

Authors

Sandeep Kumar Sood¹, Keshav Singh Rawat², Dheeraj Kumar²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Computer Aplications, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana 136119, India.
² Department of Computer Science and Informatics, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharmashala, Himachal Pradesh 176215, India.

Abstract

The prevalence of severe infectious diseases has become a major global health concern. Currently, the COVID-19 outbreak has spread across the world and has created an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. The proliferation of novel viruses has put traditional health systems under immense pressure and posed several serious issues. Henceforth, early detection, identification, rapid testing, and advanced surveillance systems are required to address public health emergencies. However, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tackles several issues raised by this pandemic and significantly improves the quality of services in the health care sector. This paper presents an ICT-assisted scientometric analysis of infectious diseases, namely, airborne, food & waterborne, fomite-borne, sexually transmitted illnesses, and vector-borne illnesses. It assesses the international research status of this field in terms of citation structure, prolific journals, and country contributions. It has used the CiteSpace tool to address the visualization needs and in-depth insights of scientific literature to pinpoint core hotspots, research frontiers, emerging research areas, and ICT trends. The research finding reveals that mobile apps, telemedicine, and artificial intelligence technologies have greater scope to reduce the threats of infectious diseases. COVID-19, influenza, HIV, and malaria viruses have been identified as research hotspots whereas COVID-19, contact tracing applications, security and privacy concerns about users' data are the recent challenges in this field that need to address. The United States has produced higher research output in all domains of infectious diseases. Furthermore, it explores the co-occurrence network analysis and intellectual landscape of each domain of infectious diseases. It provides potential research directions and insightful clues to researchers and the academic fraternity for further research.

Keywords: 3D Printing; Artificial Intelligence; Big Data Analytics; COVID-19; Information and Communication Technology; Medical Imaging; Mobile Technology; Social Media.

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