Purpose: This paper’s objective is to illustrate the state of art of the research on accountability in healthcare for obtaining an overall view of a field’s intellectual structureMethod: A bibliometric review - through a co-word analysis - of 135 research published in scientific journals over a period of 23 years (1990-2013) is been performed. To better understand the conceptual structure of the research field a Hierarchical Cluster Analysis is been conducted: it allowed identifying prevailing areas in the research field.Added Value: The added value is the elaboration of a keywords map, which is a useful tool to understand the intellectual structure of the field, identifying the issues that have been more explored, or those that remain relatively unstudied, on which scholars should focus their future efforts.
Obiettivo: Il presente articolo descrive lo stato dell’arte della lettura sul tema dell’Accountability in sanità per apprezzarne struttura ed evoluzione concettuale.Metodo: È stata effettuata un’analisi per parole chiave di 135 articoli pubblicati nel periodo 1990-2013; in particolare, al fine di comprendere le direttrici di studio prevalenti del tema, è stato condotto un clustering gerarchico. Valore Aggiunto: Il contributo del paper è una mappa di posizionamento delle direttrici di ricerca da cui si comprendono gap correnti e traiettorie future.
Mapping the field: a bibliometric analysis of accountability literature in healthcare
Mauro M;Giancotti M;
2017-01-01
Abstract
Purpose: This paper’s objective is to illustrate the state of art of the research on accountability in healthcare for obtaining an overall view of a field’s intellectual structureMethod: A bibliometric review - through a co-word analysis - of 135 research published in scientific journals over a period of 23 years (1990-2013) is been performed. To better understand the conceptual structure of the research field a Hierarchical Cluster Analysis is been conducted: it allowed identifying prevailing areas in the research field.Added Value: The added value is the elaboration of a keywords map, which is a useful tool to understand the intellectual structure of the field, identifying the issues that have been more explored, or those that remain relatively unstudied, on which scholars should focus their future efforts.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.