Bibliometric Network Analysis and Visualization of Research and Development Trends in Precision Medicine

Precision medicine which refers to a new treatment and prevention method based on understanding of individual gene, environment and life style have emerged as a new healthcare paradigm to lead future medicine. With the rapid progress of the fourth industrial revolution technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, and internet of things, it is drawing attention to the opportunities and challenges of precision medicine. There is currently no comprehensive overview of precision medicine of approaches to scientometric analysis, and this study aims to provide an overview of the research and development trends in precision medicine by bibliometric network analysis. Total 7,324 articles were retrieved and analyzed using some scientometric analysis tools such as KnowledgeMatrix Plus, Gephi and VOSviewer software. Particularly, each nation's research activities and their global relative positions, international research collaboration in this field have also been analyzed and identified by scientometric method through network and co-word analysis and visualization maps.