BACKGROUND Assessing research activity is important for planning future protective and adaptive policies. The objective of the current study was to assess research activity on climate change and health with an emphasis on infectious diseases. METHOD A bibliometric method was applied using SciVerse Scopus. Documents on climate change and human health were called "health-related literature" while documents on climate change and infectious diseases were called "infection-related literature". The study period was from 1980 to 2019. RESULTS The search query found 4247 documents in the health-related literature and 1207 in the infection-related literature. The growth of publications showed a steep increase after 2007. There were four research themes in the health-related literature: (1) climate change and infectious diseases; (2) climate change, public health and food security; (3) heat waves, mortality, and non-communicable diseases; and (4) climate change, air pollution, allergy, and respiratory health. The most frequently encountered pathogens/infectious diseases in the infection-related literature were malaria and dengue. Documents in infection-related literature had a higher h-index than documents in the health-related literature. The top-cited documents in the health-related literature focused on food security, public health, and infectious diseases while those in infection-related literature focused on water-, vector-, and mosquito-borne diseases. The European region had the highest contribution in health-related literature (n = 1626; 38.3%) and infection-related literature (n = 497; 41.2%). The USA led with 1235 (29.1%) documents in health-related literature and 365 (30.2%) documents in infection-related literature. The Australian National University ranked first in the health-related literature while the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine ranked first in the infection-related literature. International research collaboration was inadequate. Documents published in the Environmental Health Perspectives journal received the highest citations per document. A total of 1416 (33.3%) documents in the health-related literature were funded while 419 (34.7%) documents in the infection-related literature were funded. CONCLUSION Research on climate change and human health is on the rise with research on infection-related issues making a good share. International research collaboration should be funded and supported. Future research needs to focus on the impact of climate change on psychosocial, mental, innovations, policies, and preparedness of health systems.

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经同行评审的有关气候变化和人类健康的文献的文献计量分析，重点是传染病。

背景技术评估研究活动对于规划未来的保护性和适应性政策很重要。本研究的目的是评估有关气候变化和健康的研究活动，重点是传染病。方法采用SciVerse Scopus的文献计量法。关于气候变化和人类健康的文献被称为“与健康有关的文献”，而关于气候变化和传染病的文献被称为“与感染有关的文献”。研究期间为1980年至2019年。结果搜索查询在健康相关文献中找到4247篇文档，在感染相关文献中找到1207篇。在2007年之后，出版物的增长呈现出急剧增长的趋势。与健康相关的文献有四个研究主题：（1）气候变化和传染病；（2）气候变化，公共卫生和粮食安全；（3）热浪，死亡率和非传染性疾病；（4）气候变化，空气污染，过敏和呼吸健康。感染相关文献中最常见的病原体/传染病是疟疾和登革热。感染相关文献中的文件的h指数高于健康相关文献中的文件。与健康有关的文献中引用最多的文献集中于粮食安全，公共卫生和传染病，而与感染有关的文献集中于水，病媒和蚊媒疾病。欧洲地区在健康相关文献（n = 1626； 38.3％）和感染相关文献（n = 497； 41.2％）中贡献最大。美国以1235（29。健康相关文献中的文档占1％，感染相关文献中的文档占365（30.2％）。澳大利亚国立大学在健康相关文献中排名第一，伦敦卫生与热带医学学院在感染相关文献中排名第一。国际研究合作不足。在《环境健康展望》杂志上发表的文件被引用次数最高。卫生相关文献中共有1416篇（占33.3％）文献得到资助，而感染相关文献中有419篇（占34.7％）文献得到了资助。结论关于气候变化和人类健康的研究正在上升，与感染有关的问题的研究占有很大份额。国际研究合作应得到资助和支持。