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. 2022 Nov 10;19(22):14821. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192214821

Table 1.

Research method flowchart.

Data Collection Database WoS Website Core Collection
Search Criterion “All” edition: SCI-Expanded, SSCI, A&HCI, CPCI-S, CPCI-SSH, ECI
“Topics”
languages: “English”
Document types: Proceedings Papers, Articles, Review Articles, Early Access, Meeting Abstracts, Data papers
Time span: –15 June 2022
Keywords Input Step 1: “smart home*” OR “home automation” OR “domotics”
Step 2: “old man” OR “the aged” OR “the elderly” OR “elderly” OR “senior*” OR “older people” OR “old people” OR “old person” OR “older person” OR “older adult*”
Data Analysis Analysis Tool VOSviewer Software Program_1.6.18
Method of Analysis Bibliometric and Scientometric Analyses
  • (1)

    General Characteristics Analysis: By Year, publication source, research area

  • (2)

    Network Analysis: Co-authorship analysis>

    By country, organization, author

  • (3)

    Cluster Analysis:

    Co-occurrence analysis: keyword

    Co-citation analysis: reference

  • (4)

    Emerging Trend of SHOA research

    Keywords co-occurrence density visualization