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Contact Tracking Development Trend Using Bibliometric Analysis

  • Li, Chaoqun (College of Information and Intelligent Engineering, Zhejiang Wanli University) ;
  • Chen, Zhigang (College of Information and Intelligent Engineering, Zhejiang Wanli University) ;
  • Yu, Tongrui (College of Big Data and Software Engineering, Zhejiang Wanli University) ;
  • Song, Xinxia (College of Basic, Zhejiang Wanli University)
  • Received : 2021.08.09
  • Accepted : 2021.12.03
  • Published : 2022.06.30
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Abstract

The new crown pneumonia (COVID-19) has become a global epidemic. The disease has spread to most countries and poses a challenge to the healthcare system. Contact tracing technology is an effective way for public health to deal with diseases. Many experts have studied traditional contact tracing and developed digital contact tracking. In order to better understand the field of contact tracking, it is necessary to analyze the development of contact tracking in the field of computer science by bibliometrics. The purpose of this research is to use literature statistics and topic analysis to characterize the research literature of contact tracking in the field of computer science, to gain an in-depth understanding of the literature development status of contact tracking and the trend of hot topics over the past decade. In order to achieve the aforementioned goals, we conducted a bibliometric study in this paper. The study uses data collected from the Scopus database. Which contains more than 10,000 articles, including more than 2,000 in the field of computer science. For popular trends, we use VOSviewer for visual analysis. The number of contact tracking documents published annually in the computer field is increasing. At present, there are 200 to 300 papers published in the field of computer science each year, and the number of uncited papers is relatively small. Through the visual analysis of the paper, we found that the hot topic of contact tracking has changed from the past "mathematical model," "biological model," and "algorithm" to the current "digital contact tracking," "privacy," and "mobile application" and other topics. Contact tracking is currently a hot research topic. By selecting the most cited papers, we can display high-quality literature in contact tracking and characterize the development trend of the entire field through topic analysis. This is useful for students and researchers new to field of contact tracking ai well as for presenting our results to other subjects. Especially when comprehensive research cannot be conducted due to time constraints or lack of precise research questions, our research analysis can provide value for it.

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Acknowledgement

The work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61873026), the National Defense Science and Technology Key Laboratory Fund (No. JZX7Y201911SY001101), General scientific research projects of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education (No. Y202045430), and Zhejiang Province Public Welfare Technology Application Research (No. GF22F026173).

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