A bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer: Leadership in infection prevention and control

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the development of publications about inner leader infection prevention and control in healthcare facility settings using the SCOPUS database. This study uses a bibliometric analysis approach using the VOSviewer software tool to construct and visualize a bibliometric network. Researchers screened by leading keywords in infection prevention and control in the SCOPUS database for 2003-2022. The number of publications according to the keywords initially appeared as many as 922 articles, and then after filtering, the final result was that the number of publications was 369. The development of publications on leadership in infection and prevention control in the past 20 years has continued to increase and reached its highest point in 2020. Based on the analysis results with VOSviewer and the network visualization of co-occurrence based on keywords, there are 52 items divided into 4 groups (clusters) marked with different colors. The COVID-19 pandemic did not cause publications on the topic of leaders in infection prevention and control to decrease. On the contrary, it reached its highest point in the 2003-2022 period, namely in 2020. The analysis results using the VOSviewer application show a link between leadership and infection prevention and control interesting network for further research. This can be seen in network visualization, overlay visualization, and density visualization results.