Zhang Xue, Chen Xiujuan, Zhang Zhiqiang
[Purpose/Significance] Combing the recent developments and trends in international medical informatics research,which can provide researchers with relevant literature information,provide a strong basis for the selection of scientific research topics and information research,and provide advices for future development of medical informatics in China.[Methods/Process] Take the 10 years of the ten key medical journals in Web of Science as the information source,introduced BICOMB,TDA,SPSS,UCINET as the statistical analysis tools,and combined traditional bibliometrics methods to do a statistical and visual analyze of the number of documents,countries,institutions,core authors,key words and so on.[Results/Conclusion] In the 2008-2017,the core medical journals of the 10 kinds of medical informatics in the WOS database included 18823 articles and the volume of documents continued to grow year by year.The U.S.research in this area was in a leading position,and Harvard University had the highest proportion of research output in this field,and the core authors were closely related,but the high-yield author group still needed to be formed.The study found that in recent 10 years,the four aspects of international medical informatics were the development and management of health information systems,the objects and practical applications of health information analysis methods,the application and challenge of artificial intelligence and data mining technology in clinical diagnosis and treatment and the application and development of new technology in medical informatics.