Table Info

Table 1.

Top 5 most represented authors, affiliations, countries, journals, and journal categories

Entity	Number of publications	CPP
Authors
Mohr, David C.	6	378.3
Spring, Bonnie J.	4	528.3
Chau, Patrick Y. K.	3	706.3
Firth, Joseph	3	362.0
Hu, Paul J. H.	3	706.3
Nicholas, Jennifer	3	362.0
Ozcan, Aydogan	3	404.7
Riley, William T.	3	506.3
Schueller, Stephen M.	3	353.0
Torous, John	3	362.0
West, Robert	3	392.3
Yardley, Lucy	3	471.3
Affiliations
University of London	11	550.3
University of California system	10	439.4
Northwestern University	9	425.3
University College London	9	476.3
Harvard University	8	578.0
Countries
USA	58	513.2
UK	20	513.5
Australia	12	432.2
Canada	9	631.8
China	9	556.4
Journals
Journal of Medical Internet Research	21	459.1
International Journal of Medical Informatics	5	440.4
American Journal of Preventive Medicine	3	444.3
JMIR mHealth and uHealth	3	728.0
Healthcare Informatics Research	2	355.0
JAMA	2	735.0
JMIR Mental Health	2	486.5
Lab on a Chip	2	370.5
PLOS Medicine	2	1104.5
Scientific Data	2	385.0
Translational Behavioral Medicine	2	552.5
Journal categories
Medical informatics	35	469.7
Health care sciences & services	33	476.4
Medicine general internal	13	605.2
Public environmental occupational health	12	430.7
Computer science information systems	11	547.6

More than 5 names are displayed for authors and journals, due to the equal number of publications for several authors or journals that were ranked in 5th place

Supplementary materials

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Declarations

Author contributions

AWKY: Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. AGA: Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing—review & editing. OL, NLB, YK, MMR, ZS, RSHI, AK, AOA, JMF, NR, SMSI, DT, GV, GO, JN, AGG, MRS, DH, YY, MAI, HC, EBS, HPD, MAL, JGM, NTT, MM, OA, SVK, FPH, FBM, BNS, DW, JS, JOH, MK, EP, IB, A Jóźwik, NK, BZK, BS, GP, DB, TYW, BSG, MB, C Tomasik, SK, STW, RL, FAN, RKS, AM, HM, A Juhi, SM, M Cenanovic, AZ, C Tsagkaris, R De, SSC, R Damaševičius, MN, AS, OE, M Cascella, and HW: Writing—review & editing. All authors read and approved the submitted version.

Conflicts of interest

Atanas G. Atanasov is an Advisory Board member of QluPod AG, a health-tech company aiming for the development of innovative telehealth solutions, and Editor-in-Chief of Exploration of Digital Health Technologies. Andy Wai Kan Yeung, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Yousef Khader, Md. Mostafizur Rahman, Zafar Said, Robert S. H. Istepanian, Anastasios Koulaouzidis, Adeyemi Oladapo Aremu, James M. Flanagan, Navid Rabiee, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Devesh Tewari, Ganesh Venkatachalam, Giustino Orlando, Josef Niebauer, Alexandros G. Georgakilas, Mohammad Reza Saeb, Yufei Yuan, Muhammad Ali Imran, Huanyu Cheng, Eliana B. Souto, Hari Prasad Devkota, Maurizio Angelo Leone, Jamballi G. Manjunatha, Nikolay T. Tzvetkov, Dongdong Wang, Jivko Stoyanov, Emil Parvanov, Gaurav Pandey, Maciej Banach, Seifedine Kadry, Aleksandra Zielińska, and Marco Cascella are Editorial Board members of Exploration of Digital Health Technologies. Atanas G. Atanasov and all the Editorial Board members mentioned above had no involvement in the decision-making or the review process of this manuscript. The other authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval

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Consent to participate

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Consent to publication

Not applicable.

Availability of data and materials

The dataset analyzed for this study are included in the manuscript and the Supplementary materials.

Funding

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