Co-Operation and Co-Funding Networks in eHealth Research

In our bibliometric study we were interested in development and global trends in information and communication technology resulted in the emergence of cooperation and co-funding networks in eHealth research. The corpus was formed from the Web of Science Core Collection using the search keyword string "eHealth" in information source titles, abstracts, and keywords for the time period 2005-2014. The study results show that the research in eHealth is globally dispersed, however most co-operation is performed on the local continent or country level. Most co-founding is done among pharmaceutical firms themselves, however Sanofi, Merck and Abbot also co-fund the same projects as funding agencies.