Is Anybody Listening? A Citation Analysis of Healthcare Design Research Articles Published in Design Journals

DS 116: Proceedings of the DESIGN2022 17th International Design Conference

Year: 2022
Editor: Mario Štorga, Stanko Škec, Tomislav Martinec, Dorian Marjanović
Author: Guillaume Lam
Series: DESIGN
Institution: 1: CentraleSup
Section: Design for Healthcare
Page(s): 1293-1302
DOI number: https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2022.131
ISSN: 2732-527X (Online)

Abstract

Citation is a key metric in academia, and it can help to understand how ideas travel between disciplines. In this article, we report on a citation analysis of forty-four articles identified during a systematic literature review of healthcare design research published in six leading design journals. Using the Web of Science's categorisation of journals, we analyse which disciplines cite these forty-four articles. We find that these articles are much more cited in technology and engineering journals than in health sciences. We discuss these findings and the limitations of the study.

Keywords: healthcare design, design research, research methodologies and methods, multi-/cross-/trans-disciplinary approaches