Table 1.
Parameters of collaboration network analysis.
Fig 1.
Research framework.
Fig 2.
Health literacy trends from 1995 to 2020.
In the past 26 years, a total of 9,492 articles on health literacy were published in the WoS Core Collection.
Table 2.
Top 10 most prolific journals of health literacy.
Fig 3.
Country/region collaboration network of health literacy.
Each node represents a country/region, and the size of the node indicates the number of publications of the country/region. Each edge indicates a collaborative relationship between countries/regions.
Table 3.
Top 10 most productive countries, institutions and authors of health literacy.
Fig 4.
Institution collaboration network of health literacy.
Each node represents an institution, and the size of the node indicates the number of publications of the institution. Each edge indicates a collaborative relationship between two institutions.
Fig 5.
Author collaboration network of health literacy.
Each node represents an author, and the size of the node indicates the number of publications of the author. Each edge indicates a collaborative relationship between two authors.
Fig 6.
Category collaboration network of health literacy.
Each node indicates a category, and the larger the node, the more papers were published. Each edge indicates a collaborative relationship between two categories.
Fig 7.
Category document cocitation clustering network of health literacy.
A total of 12 clusters were generated in the graph. Each node represents one cited reference, and each edge indicates the cocitation relationship. The color represents the date of publication: yellow indicates literature that is newly published, and green and blue indicate literature published in earlier years.
Table 4.
Top 10 reference with the most co-citation of health literacy.
Table 5.
Top 10 reference with the highest BC of health literacy.
Fig 8.
Timeline view of health literacy.
This figure presents 12 clusters, which are arranged and numbered in ascending order from #0 to #11, with the colors corresponding to the average year in which the clusters were active. The larger the node, the more times it was cocited. Each cluster represents an area that has been developed or is developing Hence, the closer the arch body is to the right, the newer the topic.
Table 6.
Major clusters of co-cited references of health literacy.
Table 7.
Recent burst references of health literacy (2015–2020).