title: The role of interdisciplinary research team in the impact of health apps in health and computer science publications: a systematic review.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Several studies have estimated the potential economic and social impact of the mHealth development. Considering the latest study by Institute for Healthcare Informatics, more than 165.000 apps of health and medicine are offered including all the stores from different platforms. Thus, the global mHealth market was an estimated $10.5 billion in 2014 and is expected to grow 33.5 percent annually between 2015 and 2020s. In fact, apps of Health have become the third-fastest growing category, only after games and utilities.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study aims to identify, study and evaluate the role of interdisciplinary research teams in the development of articles and applications in the field of mHealth. It also aims to evaluate the impact that the development of mHealth has had on the health and computer science field, through the study of publications in specific databases for each area which have been published until nowadays.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Interdisciplinary nature is strongly connected to the scientific quality of the journal in which the work is published. This way, there are significant differences in those works that are made up by an interdisciplinary research team because of they achieve to publish in journals with higher quartiles. There are already studies that warn of methodological deficits in some studies in mHealth, low accuracy and no reproducibility. Studies of low precision and poor reproducibility, coupled with the low evidence, provide low degrees of recommendation of the interventions targeted and therefore low applicability.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  From the evidence of this study, working in interdisciplinary groups from different areas greatly enhances the quality of research work as well as the quality of the publications derived from its results.
authors.affiliation: Nursing Department, University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain.
authors.forename: Guillermo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Molina Recio
authors.affiliation: Area of Project Engineering, University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain. ir1gahel@uco.es.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: García-Hernández
authors.affiliation: Nursing Department, University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain.
authors.forename: Rafael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Molina Luque
authors.affiliation: Area of Project Engineering, University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain.
authors.forename: Lorenzo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Salas-Morera
mesh_terms: D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D055811:Journal Impact Factor; D063731:Mobile Applications; D011642:Publications; D012586:Science