Social Network Analysis on Mapping the Knowledge Structure of Dementia Research

Purpose The purpose of this descriptive study was to develop a knowledge map through a social network analysis of dementia-related articles. Methods For 276,548 keywords from 52,225 studies on dementia, co-occurrence keywords were used to analyze the node centrality in terms of degree, closeness, betweenness, and cohesion through social network analysis. Co-occurrence words were presented using word clouds. Results The keywords Parkinson...