COVID-19 in Latin America: A Bibliometric Analysis of Scientific Publications in Health

Gallegos, Miguel; Cervigni, Mauricio; Consoli, Andrés J.; Caycho‐Rodríguez, Tomás; Polanco, Fernando; Martino, Pablo; Pecanha, Viviane de Castro; Videla, Carmen Burgos; Carrasco, Roberto Polanco; Cusinato, Adriana Marie

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“…Overall, LAC researchers preferred to publish in Travel Medicine Infectious Disease journal as described elsewhere [16]. However, another bibliometric analysis found that Cadernos de Saúde Pública was the most prevalent journal [22], which is not surprising, considering that Brazil is the main producer of the region.…”

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Tackling COVID-19 Pandemic through Research in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Bibliometric Analysis

Espinosa¹,

Cuenca²,

Eissa-Garcés³

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Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is one of the worst-hit regions globally by COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, scarce literature exists that examines the research strategy of LAC in facing COVID-19. The present study aims to quantify and assess the production of COVID-19 publications in thirty-two countries in LAC during the first half of 2020. A Scopus/PubMed/LILACS search was performed to retrieve research articles related to COVID-19 published from January 1 to July 31, 2020. Subgroup analysis including only original publications was used to better ascertain the contribution of LAC countries, and standardization measures were applied to comparisons of country-specific contributions. We identified 1291 publications across the region. Overall, most articles in the region were non-original (81.6%), and the most productive countries were Brazil (43.9%), Mexico (9.14%), and Colombia (7.98%). This trend shifted to Chile after the standardization. Among original studies, the most common study design was cross-sectional (25.8%). LAC countries generate articles primarily pertaining to diagnosis and treatment (27.4%). In the subgroup analysis, however, epidemiology and surveillance was the most prevalent research focus (24.1%). LAC countries should perform more research with a higher level of evidence to inform health policy making to ease the burden of COVID-19 in the region.

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Tackling COVID-19 Pandemic through Research in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Bibliometric Analysis

Espinosa¹,

Cuenca²,

Eissa-Garcés³

et al. 2020

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“…Similarly, some bibliometrics-based studies focus on the publications in some specific time periods, such as the first eight months in 2020 (Furstenau et al, 2021), the early stage of the outbreak (Gong Y. et al, 2020;Zyoud & Al-Jabi, 2020), etc. There are also some bibliometrics analyses that focus on some specific countries or regions (Gallegos et al, 2020;Raju & Patil, 2020) or publication sources (Oh & Kim, 2020). Beyond that, most of the bibliometrics analyses focus on some specific topics or fields, including COVID-19 and environment (Casado-Aranda et al, 2021;, mental health and COVID-19 (Maalouf et al, 2021), COVID-19 and machine learning (Chiroma et al, 2020;De Felice & Polimeni, 2020), COVID-19 and business and management (Rodrigues et al, 2020;Verma & Gustafsson, 2020), etc.…”

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The research on COVID-19 and economy from 2019 to 2020: analysis from the perspective of bibliometrics

Liu

Škare

2021

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Research background: The outbreak and spread of COVID-19 brought disastrous influences to the development of human society, especially the development of economy. Purpose of the article: Considering that knowing about the situations of the existing studies about COVID-19 and economy is not only helpful to understand the research progress and the connections between COVID-19 and economy, but also provides effective suggestions for fighting against COVID-19 and protecting economy, this paper analyzes the existing studies on COVID-19 and economy from the perspective of bibliometrics. Methods: Firstly, the discussion starts from the statistical analysis, in which the basic distributions of the studies on different countries/regions, different publication sources, different publication years, etc., are presented. Then, the paper shows the cooperation situations of the researchers from analyzing the related citation networks, co-citation networks and cooperation networks. Further, the theme analysis of the related studies is presented, in which the related co-occurrence networks are shown, and then the detailed analyses of the studies are introduced. Based on these analyses, the discussions about future research are presented, and finally we draw a conclusion. Findings & value added: The analyses not only present the basic situation on the research about COVID-19 and Economy, but also show the future research trends, which can provide meaningful research expectations.

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“…Like in review articles [23][24][25], the utilization of Bibliometrics Analysis, a tool and technique widely used by many researchers worldwide [26,27], presents a cumulative understanding of malnutrition eradication effort. The analytical approach of annual trends of publication, institutions, journals, authors, country and international collaboration networks, citations, keywords occurrence, and contributed funding agency can help researchers and decisionmakers gain insight into the research productivity to understand scientific research progress in malnutrition-related publications better.…”

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Malnutrition Research Output: A Bibliometric Analysis for articles Index in Web of Science between 1900 and 2020

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Introduction: Malnutrition is a significant cause of child morbidity and mortality, and it remains a global health issue with high prevalence. Here, we carried out a bibliometric survey to provide global scientific research output on malnutrition and identify the research gaps and future research direction from published papers searched in Web of Science (WoS).Methods: A comprehensive analysis was generated by searching the WoS database. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), was used to search terms "Malnutrition' or 'Malnourishment' or 'Nutritional Deficiency' or 'Undernutrition' or 'Nutrition Disorders.' Was used to retrieve article published in between 1900 and 2020. Only original research and review papers published in English were included in the analysis. SPSS, HistCite, Bibliometrix app." (Using R), and VOSviewer ver 1.6.6 were used for analysis. Results:Research output peak from 1972 to 2007 with 100(0.99%) articles, in 2008 to 2012 with more than 200 (1.98%) articles, while the year 2019 and 2020 had the least more than 500 (4.95%) articles per year. The United States ranked first in terms of the number of articles 1947(19.28%), followed by United Kingdom 604 (5.98%), and Brazil 412 (4.08%). In addition, our analyses revealed a significant correlation between the total number of citations Year science publications(r=0.9216, p<0.0001), and between number of countries (r=0.9219, p<0.0001), and number of Number of authors (r=0.4149, p<0.0001), and Institution (r=0.5534, p<0.0001), Journal h_index (r=0.6927, p<0.0001), and Journal impact factors (r=0.6364, p<0.0544). Conclusion:This bibliometric analysis provides insights into the global overview on the annual trend of the global malnutrition research output, institution, journal, authors, and countries.

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COVID-19 in Latin America: A Bibliometric Analysis of Scientific Publications in Health

Cited by 20 publications

References 44 publications

Tackling COVID-19 Pandemic through Research in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Bibliometric Analysis

Tackling COVID-19 Pandemic through Research in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Bibliometric Analysis

The research on COVID-19 and economy from 2019 to 2020: analysis from the perspective of bibliometrics

Malnutrition Research Output: A Bibliometric Analysis for articles Index in Web of Science between 1900 and 2020

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