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. 2022 Aug 12:10:979064.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.979064. eCollection 2022.

Obamacare: A bibliometric perspective

Alvaro Carrasco-Aguilar  1 , José Javier Galán  2 , Ramón Alberto Carrasco  3
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Obamacare: A bibliometric perspective

Alvaro Carrasco-Aguilar et al. Front Public Health. .

Abstract

Obamacare is the colloquial name given to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) signed into law by President Obama in the USA, which ultimately aims to provide universal access to health care services for US citizens. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the political-legal, economic, social, management (or administrative), and medical (or health) repercussions of this law, using a bibliometric methodology as a basis. In addition, the main contributors to research on ACA issues have been identified in terms of authors, organizations, journals, and countries. The downward trend in scientific production on this law has been noted, and it has been concluded that a balance has not yet been reached between the coexistence of private and public health care that guarantees broad social coverage without economic or other types of barriers. The law requires political consensus to be implemented in a definitive and global manner for the whole of the United States.

Keywords: Affordable Care Act; Obamacare; PEST analysis; SciMAT; strategic diagram.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Steps used in the research methodology.
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Thematic network where the different elements (dimensions) and segmentation of the network are linked using a different color for groups, group (A) and group (B).
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Strategic diagram (A), examples of an evolution diagram (B), and overlap diagram (C).
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Strategic diagram analysis period “until 2017”.
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Strategic diagram analysis period “2018–2021”.
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Evolution diagram from the period “Until 2017” to the period “2018–2021”.
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Figure 7
Changes in the number of publications and citations on the subject.
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Figure 8
Co-authorship network of the most important countries in the subject analyzed.
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Figure 9
PESMM analysis of the ACA.
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