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Neck pain has grown to 27–48% and are expected to continue to rise due to the shift from heavy manufacturing to office work. Since 1980s, there have been 220 publications about neck pain in the ergonomics field. The scientific papers are collected from the Web of Science database. The analyzed parameters include publication years, the geospatial distribution of the neck pain research in countries/regions and organizations dimension, and high frequent keywords. The annual output of related publication continuously grew. The analysis of the countries shows that the US, Sweden, Canada and Australia are the most productive countries. The published articles revealed that Chalmers University of Technology, Curtin University, University of Gothenburg are the key institutes that conduct neck pain research in ergonomics. Keywords analysis showed that four main topics in neck pain research are research method, risk factors, interventions and occupation. Research trends include the study of dynamic cervical spine model, the association of smart phone usage and neck pain, the effectiveness of micro-break and ergonomics training intervention, neck pain at school.
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This research has been performed with support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NO. 51874042 and 51904185). The third author has received no specific funding support for this research.
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Li, M., Yi, H., Niu, L., Li, J. (2022). Research Status of Neck Pain in Ergonomic Area. In: Long, S., Dhillon, B.S. (eds) Man-Machine-Environment System Engineering: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on MMESE. MMESE 2021. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 800. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5963-8_8
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