Coronavirus Research Trends: A 50–Year Bibliometric Assessment

Ram, Shri

doi:10.1080/0194262x.2020.1742270

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“…Taking into account previous coronavirus pandemics Hu et al [9] establish that the highest research interest occur in the first year after outburst. This is further confirmed by the study addressing coronavirus research trends during the last 50-years period [10]. Therefore, it is not surprising why recently COVID-19 has become the central topic in the recent scientific literature, since the research addressing various aspects of COVID-19 may be the key to mitigating the current COVID-19 pandemic as well as their consequences [11].…”

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confidence: 69%

A Bibliometric Analysis of COVID-19 across Science and Social Science Research Landscape

Aristovnik¹,

Ravšelj²,

Umek³

2020

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The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan City, Hubei province of China at the end of 2019, has radically transformed the lives of people around the world. Due to its high spreading, it is currently considered as a worldwide health, social and economic concern. The lack of knowledge on this area has encouraged academic sphere for extensive research, which is reflected in exponentially growing scientific literature in this area. However, current state of COVID-19 research reveals only early development of knowledge, while a comprehensive and in-depth overview remains neglected. Accordingly, the main aim of this paper is to fill the aforementioned gap in the literature and provide an extensive bibliometric analysis of COVID-19 research across science and social science research landscape. The bibliometric analysis is based on the Scopus database including all relevant and latest information on COVID-19 related publications. The findings emphasize an importance of a comprehensive and in-depth approach considering different scientific disciplines in COVID-19 research. The understanding of the evolution of emerging scientific knowledge on COVID-19 is beneficial not only for scientific community but also for evidence-based policymaking in order to prevent and address the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 69%

A Bibliometric Analysis of COVID-19 across Science and Social Science Research Landscape

Aristovnik¹,

Ravšelj²,

Umek³

2020

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“…Taking into account previous coronavirus pandemics Hu et al [9] establish that the highest research interest occurs in the first year after outburst. This is further confirmed by the study addressing coronavirus research trends during the last 20-years [10,11] and last 50-years period [12,13]. However, although the growth pattern was not uniform, China and the United States have played a major role in the contribution of coronavirus research [14].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 66%

“…A comprehensive bibliometric data on COVID-19 related research is obtained throughout two consecutive phases. The first phase involves identification of all relevant documents or publications on June 1, 2020 in the Scopus database on document information, which is widely recognised database also by the previous research [9,13,19,23]. The applied search query extends previously narrowly defined queries [21,22] by including a wide range of COVID-19 related keywords: "novel coronavirus 2019", "coronavirus 2019", "COVID 2019", "COVID19", "COVID 19", "COVID-19", "SARS-CoV-2", "HCoV-19", "2019-nCoV" and "severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2".…”

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confidence: 99%

A Bibliometric Analysis of COVID-19 across Science and Social Science Research Landscape

Aristovnik¹,

Ravšelj²,

Umek³

2020

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The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan City, Hubei province of China at the end of 2019, has radically transformed the lives of people around the world. Due to its fast spreading, it is currently considered as a worldwide health, social and economic concern. The lack of knowledge on this area has encouraged academic sphere for extensive research, which is reflected in exponentially growing scientific literature in this area. However, current state of COVID-19 research reveals only early development of knowledge, while a comprehensive and in-depth overview remains neglected. Accordingly, the main aim of this paper is to fill the aforementioned gap in the literature and provide an extensive bibliometric analysis of COVID-19 research across science and social science research landscape. The bibliometric analysis is based on the Scopus database including all relevant and latest information on COVID-19 related publications (n=10,344) in the January-May 2020 period. The findings emphasize an importance of a comprehensive and in-depth approach considering different scientific disciplines in COVID-19 research. The understanding of the evolution of emerging scientific knowledge on COVID-19 is beneficial not only for scientific community but also for evidence-based policymaking in order to prevent and address the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…Taking into account previous coronavirus pandemics Hu et al [10] establish that the highest research interest occurs in the first year after outburst. This is further confirmed by the study addressing coronavirus research trends during the last 20-years [11,12] and last 50-years period [13,14]. However, although the growth pattern was not uniform, China and the United States have played a major role in the contribution of coronavirus research [15].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 66%

“…A comprehensive bibliometric data on COVID-19 related research is obtained throughout two consecutive phases as presented in Figure 1. The first phase involves identification of all relevant documents or publications from January 1, 2020 to July 1, 2020 in the Scopus database on document information, which is widely recognised database also by the previous research [10,14,31,35]. The applied search query extends previously narrowly defined queries [33,34] by including a wide range of COVID-19 related keywords: "novel coronavirus 2019", "coronavirus 2019", "COVID 2019", "COVID19", "COVID 19", "COVID-19", "SARS-CoV-2", "HCoV-19", "2019-nCoV" and "severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2".…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Bibliometric Analysis of COVID-19 across Science and Social Science Research Landscape

Aristovnik

Ravšelj

Umek

2020

Preprint

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The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan City, Hubei province of China at the end of 2019, has radically transformed the lives of people around the world. Due to its fast spreading, it is currently considered as a worldwide health, social and economic concern. The lack of knowledge on this area has encouraged academic sphere for extensive research, which is reflected in exponentially growing scientific literature in this area. However, current state of COVID-19 research reveals only early development of knowledge, while a comprehensive and in-depth overview remains neglected. Accordingly, the main aim of this paper is to fill the aforementioned gap in the literature and provide an extensive bibliometric analysis of COVID-19 research across science and social science research landscape, using innovative and sophisticated bibliometric approaches (e.g. Venn diagram, Biblioshiny descriptive statistics, VOSviewer co-occurrence network analysis, Jaccard distance cluster analysis, text mining based on logistic regression). The bibliometric analysis is based on the Scopus database including all relevant and latest information on COVID-19 related publications (n=16,866) in the first half of 2020. The empirical results indicate that there is still a lack of publications of COVID-19 and its implications in less-explored (non-health) sciences, especially in social sciences. Accordingly, the findings emphasize an importance of a comprehensive and in-depth approach considering different scientific disciplines in COVID-19 research. The understanding of the evolution of emerging scientific knowledge on COVID-19 is beneficial not only for scientific community but also for evidence-based policymaking in order to prevent and address the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Coronavirus Research Trends: A 50–Year Bibliometric Assessment

Cited by 32 publications

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A Bibliometric Analysis of COVID-19 across Science and Social Science Research Landscape

A Bibliometric Analysis of COVID-19 across Science and Social Science Research Landscape

A Bibliometric Analysis of COVID-19 across Science and Social Science Research Landscape

A Bibliometric Analysis of COVID-19 across Science and Social Science Research Landscape

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