美國科學信息研究所（Institute of Scientific Information, ISI）的引文索引(Citation Index, CI)涵蓋多種學科，並可跨學科查詢，資料庫中收錄每個專業領域中最具影響力的期刊。本研究利用科學引文索引資料庫（Science Citation Index, SCI）和社會科學引文索引資料庫（Social Science Citation Index, SSCI），以文獻計量學方法針對1991至2008年期間的長期照護的文獻進行數量和質量分析。結果顯示，在1991至2008年期間，越來越多的作者、機構和國家從事長期照護方面的研究，其中，美國是以單一國家及國際合作發表文章數量最多的國家，其次依序為加拿大和英國。綜合分析論文題目、作者的關鍵字和附加關鍵字，可以得出結論，長期護理的研究趨勢主要集中在五個分支，包括老年學、精神病學、健康科學，護理學和流行病學。

An effective bibliometric analysis based on Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) published by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) was carried out to identify the long-term care research between 1991 and 2008. The objective was to conduct a quantitative and qualitative analysis for global trends of long-term care related research. The characteristics related to publications were analyzed. Apparently more and more authors, institutes, and countries engaged in the research over the 18 years. The USA produced the most single country articles and international collaborative articles, followed by Canada and UK. Synthetically analyzing the distribution of paper title, author keyword and keyword plus, it could be concluded that application of long-term care mainly focused on five branches. There are gerontology, psychiatry, health care science, nursing and epidemiology.

論文審定書 ii
誌 謝 iii
摘 要 iv
Abstract v
Chapter I. Introduction 1
Chapter II Literature Review 6
2.1 The Definition of Bibliometrics 6
2.2 The Evolution of Bibliometrics 7
2.3 The Application of Bibliometrics 7
2.4 The Definition of Long-Term Care 10
2.5 A Bibliometric Analysis of the Healthcare Related Fields 12
Chapter III Methodology 16
3.1 Data Source 16
3.2 Core Set Documents 18
3.3 World region 19
3.4 Performance indicators 21
3.5 Keywords analysis 22
3.6 Others 24
Chapter IV Results and Discussion 26
4.1 Document type 26
4.2 Language of publication 27
4.3 Characteristics of Article output 28
4.4 Authorship 31
4.5 Distribution of output in subject categories and journals 33
4.6 Distribution of country publications 38
4.7 Citation analysis 43
4.8 Institutional comparisons 45
4.9 Keywords analysis 48
Chapter V Conclusion 63
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