Table 1.
Quantitative analysis of literature search results obtained from scopus
| Description | Results | |
|---|---|---|
|
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| Fast healthcare interoperability resources | Block chain | |
| Time span | 2013–2022 | 2016–2022 |
| Sources (journals, books, etc.) | 116 | 397 |
| Documents | 302 | 758 |
| Average years from publication | 2.82 | 1.82 |
| Average citations per documents | 6.616 | 15.37 |
| Average citations per year per document | 1.317 | 3.72 |
| References | 7655 | 22,703 |
| Document types | ||
| Article | 135 | 305 |
| Book | 1 | 1 |
| Book chapter | 24 | 44 |
| Conference paper | 127 | 315 |
| Conference review | 4 | 27 |
| Editorial | 1 | 2 |
| Note | 3 | 8 |
| Review articles | 7 | 50 |
| Contents of the document | ||
| Keywords plus | 1647 | 2909 |
| Author’s keywords | 722 | 1349 |
| Author related information | ||
| Authors | 1186 | 2235 |
| Author appearances | 1619 | 2866 |
| Authors of single-authored documents | 15 | 32 |
| Authors of multi-authored documents | 1171 | 2203 |
| Authors collaboration | ||
| Single-authored documents | 24 | 61 |
| Documents per author | 0.255 | 0.339 |
| Authors per document | 3.93 | 2.95 |
| Co-authors per documents | 5.36 | 3.78 |
| Collaboration index | 4.21 | 3.16 |
| Annual growth rate (%) | 20.85 | 90.30 |
| Annual total citation (n) | ||
| 2013 | 2 | - |
| 2014 | 1 | - |
| 2015 | 12 | - |
| 2016 | 13 | 2 |
| 2017 | 33 | 18 |
| 2018 | 31 | 57 |
| 2019 | 62 | 125 |
| 2020 | 53 | 214 |
| 2021 | 84 | 247 |
| 2022 | 11 | 95 |
n=Total number of citations in a year