Drawing a scientific map of the field of human health and growth

Drawing a scientific map as one of the techniques of scientometrics can make people aware of the state of published researches, display the relationship of the sub-fields of the subjects in a visual form and introduce the most influential subject areas of the scientific field. The aim of the current research was to draw a scientific map of the field of human health and growth using Web of Science data.

The current research was conducted as an applied research using the scientometric method and social network analysis indicators. The research community included all the information sources indexed in the Web of Science database in the field of human health and growth, amounting to 18,188 works. To collect research data, keywords (human health and development, human health, human development, human study) were searched for each through the Web of Science database, and the data was entered into Excel. Vis viewer software was used for network analysis.

The results of the research showed that in terms of the centrality of the categories of health, disease, human health, sustainable growth, human rights, nursing and care, human development, obesity, growth and education, the most centrality index and in terms of the density and clustering coefficient of the health categories, human development, human rights and nursing and care were more important than other categories.

The general results of the research showed that the model presented in the research is a thematic map of the field of human health and growth, which causes the researchers to gain more knowledge about the status of the subjects and the relationship between them and information about thematic gaps and can prevent rework in the research.