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Data from: Characterizing terminology applied by authors and database producers to informatics literature on consumer engagement with wearable devices

Abstract

To recommend strategies to improve discoverability of consumer health informatics (CHI) literature, we aimed to characterize controlled vocabulary and author terminology applied to a subset of CHI literature on wearable technologies. A descriptive analysis of articles (N=2,522) from 2019 identified 308 (12.2%) CHI-related articles for which the citations with PubMed identifiers for the included and excluded studies are provided. The 308 articles were published in 181 journals which we classified by type of journal—health, informatics, technology and other—as shown in the third file. We provide an aggregated file of the author-assigned keywords as they appeared in the PubMed records of the included studies along with our decision about whether they represented consumer engagement. We also included an aggregated file of the Medical Subject Headings assigned to the included studies.  The top 100 terms and their frequency scores for the title and abstracts are also included. We did not include any of the terminology from CINAHL, and Engineering Databases (Compendex and Inspec together) due to copyright concerns.