Brain drain in health professionals: a bibliometric study

Year 2024, Volume: 10 Issue: 3, 276 - 288, 31.12.2024

Fatma Şule Bilgiç , Fatma Azizoğlu , Aysu Yıldız Karaahmet

https://doi.org/10.30569/adiyamansaglik.1476131

Abstract

Aim: The research was carried out to identify, visualize and reveal the trends in the studies conducted between 1988-2023 in the field of health workers and brain drain.
Materials and Methods: Performance analysis, scientific mapping and bibliometric analysis were performed with VOSViewer (1.6.15) software program. When the findings were limited to publication language, WoS category, countries, institutions, authors, publication type, indexes and publication year 1988-2023, the sample was found to be 2.247.
Results: As a result of the analysis, the most used keywords in the WoS category were "health professional", "mental health", "brain drain", "education", the most published in the USA as a country, the number of publications in "University of London" as the institution with the highest number of publications.
Conclusion: According to the results of this analysis, the most broadcasts were made in 2022 and the most broadcasts were made in the USA.

Keywords

Brain drain, Health workers, Health professional

Ethical Statement

There was no data obtained from animal or human experiments for this article.

Supporting Institution

The authors received no financial support for the research.

Project Number

None

Thanks

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Sağlık profesyonellerinde beyin göçü: bibliyometrik bir çalışma

Abstract

Amaç: Araştırma, 1988-2023 yılları arasında sağlık çalışanları ve beyin göçü alanında yapılan çalışmalardaki eğilimleri belirlemek, görselleştirmek ve ortaya koymak amacıyla gerçekleştirilmiştir.
Gereç ve Yöntem: VOSViewer (1.6.15) yazılım programı ile performans analizi, bilimsel haritalama ve bibliyometrik analiz yapılmıştır. Elde edilen bulgular yayın dili, WoS kategorisi, ülkeler, kurumlar, yazarlar, yayın türü taranan indeksler ve yayın yılı 1988-2023 ile sınırlandırıldığında örneklem 2.247 olarak bulunmuştur.
Bulgular: Analiz sonucunda WoS kategorisinde en çok kullanılan anahtar kelimeler "health professional", "mental health", "brain drain", "education", ülke olarak en çok yayın ABD'de, yayın sayısı olarak en çok yayın yapılan kurum "University of London" olmuştur.
Sonuç: Bu analiz sonuçlarına göre en çok yayının 2022 yılında yapıldığı ve yayınların en çok ABD'de olduğu belirlendi.

Keywords

Beyin göçü, Sağlık çalışanları, Sağlık profesyonelleri

Ethical Statement

There was no data obtained from animal or human experiments for this article.

Supporting Institution

The authors received no financial support for the research.

Project Number

None

Thanks

None

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