A Bibliometric Analysis of Active Aging: Current Status and Trends

Abstract

In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in research on active ageing. However, it is un-derstood that more effort needs to be made to emphasize the critical effects of the studies on this subject in a scientific sense and to highlight the priority studies in the literature with modern visual and scientific mapping techniques. This study aims to identify future priority research topics and potential areas of collaboration by examining existing research on active ageing. In this context, the literature search results in the Web of Science database with the keywords “active ageing” and “active aging” are subjected to a bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer. VOSviewer is an up-to-date tool widely used for statistical analysis and visual representation in many disciplines. Types of publications, authors, countries, organizations, keywords and vari-ous scientific relationships related to active ageing constitute the study’s unit of analysis. In this direction, 2322 studies on active ageing were analyzed. In the distribution of the publication types of these studies, articles (n=1584), proceedings (n=351) and abstracts (n=178) have an essential place. When the distribution of studies according to years is analyzed, it is determined that scientific studies were conducted in 2022 (n=256), 2021 (n=253) and 2023 (n=208). Andrea Principi (n=20), Taina Rantanen (n=19), Erja Portegij (n=17) and Alan Walker (n=16) are the authors with the most studies. It was seen that the concept of active ageing was empha-sized in the publications and the keywords frequently used together were “active ageing”, “active aging”, “quality life”, “physical activity”, “healthy aging” and “well-being”.

Keywords

• bibliometric analysis
• literature review
• research trend
• active ageing
• vosviewer