Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
6th INTERNATIONAL LATIN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CONGRESS, La Habana, Küba, 1 - 03 Şubat 2024, ss.348-353
Introduction: News is about situations such as change, development and innovation in
every field that affects daily life. Health news is a field-specific type of
journalism. Although there is a lot of news in the field of health, the number
of publications on health news is limited.
Objective: Aimed in the study Using the bibliometric analysis method of studies
indexed in the Web of Science database and conducted in the field of health /
news, map the current situation, presenting a systematic summary to the
attention of researchers, determination of study trends on the subject.
Method: This research is a retrospective study that was conducted using the
document review method, which is one of the data collection methods. The
research aimed to achieve all results without any time period limitation. The
search was made only with the keyword “health news” to prevent the data from
being unparseable and complex. On December 2023, a search was made in Web of
Science by selecting "all fields". 29 articles were reached. 21
publications were reviewed, which met the inclusion criteria for the Study.
Results: Looking at the distribution of 21 works on "Health news"
according to their publication years, the following findings were obtained:-
published at most in 2018 (5 publications);- the most cited author is Tanner
AH;- USA-based publishers are the leader in the distribution of publications by
country; - The university that produces and cites the most publications on this
subject is the University of South Carolina. It was determined that research
articles were published on Health News between 1993 and 2022, the publications
were mostly published in English, the most publications were made by US
publishers, and the most cited work belonged to Tanner AH.
Comment: It is recommended that researchers who will study Health News read the
most cited article by Tanner AH titled "Agenda building, source selection,
and health news at local television stations - A nationwide survey of local
television health reporters" (2004).