Purpose

The purpose of this research is to analyze the literature published on mobile health (mHealth) in the Indian context. It also reviews the most important research works and presents various methodologies adopted by the researchers in this domain.

Design/methodology/approach

The SciVerse SCOPUS database was used for extracting the literature on mobile health. The study used articles published between January 2008 to 28^th June 2019. The keyword used is ‘mHealth’ and journal articles with studies or interventions carried out in India were selected for bibliometric analysis and methodological review.

Findings

For the keyword search, a total of 7,874 documents have been extracted, of which only 158 have been considered for the analysis. There is an exponential increase in the number of publications from the year 2015 to 2019. The keywords used for representing their articles have been grouped as mobile health devices, gender and age groups, system and software, health and disease condition, management, evidence-based practices (outcome), methods, and importance of the study. The journal PLOS One (87) has the highest number of citations, followed by The Lancet (63). The bibliometric analysis of the literature revealed seven clusters classified as individual’s individual’s mobile health applications adoption characteristics, need for mobile health and its governance, mobile phone application with the internet of things based framework for healthcare monitoring, mobile health for primary healthcare systems, authentication and security protocol for mobile healthcare, development and experimentation of mobile health application, and development and mobile health for adherence support intervention.

Originality/Value

The study contributes in analyzing the bibliometrics and provides a methodological review for the journal articles published on mobile health. Previous articles considered systematic analysis of the bibliometric for mHealth, and mobile technology but less adequately discussed specifically towards Indian context which this study has embraced.

中文翻译：

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印度移动医疗服务和应用的文献计量分析和方法学审查

目的

本研究的目的是分析在印度背景下发表的关于移动健康 (mHealth) 的文献。它还回顾了最重要的研究工作，并介绍了该领域研究人员采用的各种方法。

设计/方法/方法

SciVerse SCOPUS 数据库用于提取有关移动健康的文献。该研究使用了 2008 年 1 月至 2019 年 6 月 28 日期间发表的文章。^使用的关键词是“移动健康”，并选择在印度进行研究或干预的期刊文章进行文献计量分析和方法学审查。

发现

对于关键字搜索，总共提取了 7,874 个文档，其中仅考虑了 158 个进行分析。从 2015 年到 2019 年，出版物数量呈指数级增长。用于表示其文章的关键词已分组为移动健康设备、性别和年龄组、系统和软件、健康和疾病状况、管理、证据-基于实践（结果）、方法和研究的重要性。期刊 PLOS One (87) 的引用次数最多，其次是 The Lancet (63)。文献的文献计量分析揭示了七个集群，这些集群被归类为个人的移动健康应用程序采用特征、对移动健康的需求及其治理、

原创性/价值

该研究有助于分析文献计量学，并为发表在移动健康方面的期刊文章提供方法论评论。以前的文章考虑了对 mHealth 和移动技术的文献计量的系统分析，但针对本研究所涵盖的印度背景的具体讨论较少。