Diffusion of new technologies in medical research: the case of virtual reality

Abstract Recent developments in display technology and computation have strongly increased the operability of virtual reality applications, and both academic and commercial interest in the subject is on the increase. This paper studies publication patterns of VR in medicine and various medical subfields by analysing 9830 documents from 1991 to 2018 to put the rising publication numbers into context. The focus rests on identifying those areas that show exceptional growth. While scholars in surgery were the first to publish extensively on VR, psychology and psychiatry are now the only fields that show a relative increase in publication growth..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Health and Technology - 10(2020), 5 vom: 08. Mai, Seite 1221-1227

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Thurner, Thomas Wolfgang [VerfasserIn]
Dyachenko, Ekaterina [VerfasserIn]
Mironenko, Asia [VerfasserIn]

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44.09 / Medizintechnik / Medizintechnik

Themen:

Bibliometrics
Medical technology
Technology diffusion
Virtual reality

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© IUPESM and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020

doi:

10.1007/s12553-020-00416-7

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OLC2119209529