Research on Covid-19: a disruptive phenomenon for bibliometrics

Fassin, Yves

doi:10.1007/s11192-021-03989-w

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“…Such a review should be prepared as a systematic review, searching more than two databases to find as many relevant published papers as possible. Another approach for a continuous update would be to conduct a living systematic review to "incorporate relevant new evidence as it becomes available" [109,110], which seems to be important during the COVID-19 pandemic because the pandemic "has led to an explosion of scientific literature" [111].…”

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A Rapid Review on the Influence of COVID-19 Lockdown and Quarantine Measures on Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the General Population

Freiberg¹,

Schubert²,

Starke³

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Preceding coronavirus outbreaks resulted in social isolation, which in turn is associated with cardiovascular consequences. Whether the current COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacts cardiovascular health is unclear. The aim of the rapid review was to investigate, whether COVID-19 lockdown influences modifiable cardiovascular risk factors (i.e., physical inactivity, sedentary behaviour, smoking, alcohol use, unhealthy diet, obesity, bad blood lipids, and hypertension) in the general population. Medline and EMBASE were searched until March 2021. Title, abstracts, and full texts were screened by one reviewer and 20% by a second reviewer. Only studies using probability sampling were included in order to ensure the representativeness of the target population. Data extraction and critical appraisal were done by one reviewer and double-checked by another reviewer. We identified 32 studies that fulfilled our inclusion criteria. Findings show that physical activity decreased, and sedentary behaviour increased among all age groups during the COVID-19 lockdown. Among adults, alcohol consumption increased, dietary quality worsened, and the amount of food intake increased. Some adults reported weight gain. Studies on children and adolescents were sparse. This rapid review found a high number of epidemiological studies on the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on modifiable cardiovascular risk factors, but only a few used probability sampling methods.

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A Rapid Review on the Influence of COVID-19 Lockdown and Quarantine Measures on Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the General Population

Freiberg¹,

Schubert²,

Starke³

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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“…There are many studies that have performed a scientometric/bibliometric evaluation of literature related to the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19), with each one focusing in specific aspects, subject areas or contexts, but all of them have contributed significantly to combat this terrible pandemic and to expand the scientific knowledge. Among these works, the following studies stand out: Cai et al ( 2021 ), Casado-Aranda et al ( 2021 ), Colavizza et al ( 2021 ), Ebadi et al ( 2021 ), Fassin ( 2021 ), Grammes et al ( 2020 ), Lauper et al ( 2021 ), Malik et al ( 2021 ), Rodríguez-Rodríguez et al ( 2021 ) and Tornberg et al ( 2021 ).…”

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“…In Fassin ( 2021 ), the author performed a bibliometric analysis, aiming to analyze the disruptive impact of the explosion of COVID-19 production with respect to several bibliometric indexes, for example, the impact factor and h-index. As data source, WoS data was used, and the author compared the COVID-19 production with the data of publications related to the general topic “cancer”, available until the year 2020, as well as restricted for the year 2020 alone.…”

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Discovering temporal scientometric knowledge in COVID-19 scholarly production

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The mapping and analysis of scientific knowledge makes it possible to identify the dynamics and/or growth of a particular field of research or to support strategic decisions related to different research entities, based on bibliometric and/or scientometric indicators. However, with the exponential growth of scientific production, a systematic and data-oriented approach to the analysis of this large set of productions becomes increasingly essential. Thus, in this work, a data-oriented methodology was proposed, combining Data Analysis, Machine Learning and Complex Network Analysis techniques, and Data Version Control (DVC) tool, for the extraction of implicit knowledge in scientific production bases. In addition, the approach was validated through a case study in a COVID-19 manuscripts dataset, which had 199,895 articles published on arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, PubMed and Scopus databases. The results suggest the feasibility of the proposed methodology, indicating the most active countries and the most explored themes in each period of the pandemic. Therefore, this study has the potential to instrument and expand strategic decisions by the scientific community, aiming at extracting knowledge that supports the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…The volume of literature is unprecedent because of the urgency in attention to the COVID-19 pandemic (Belli et al, 2020) at 100 publications and 1600% growth rate (Pal, 2021). With "COVID" surpassing the likes of other acronyms such as "AIDS", "PCR" and "MRI", that have been in existence for more than thirty years, in just one year (Barnett & Doubleday, 2021), studies have declared COVID-19 as the most disruptive "phenomenon for research" because of the explosion of research activities as reflected in citation and (Fassin, 2021), speed of publication which has led to an increase in retractions (Moradi & Abdi, 2021;Soltani & Patini, 2020 Cameroon) were also included so that indexes with their variant names would be captured. All the variant names of COVID-19, as specified in peer-reviewed search strings of the Medical Library Association for bibliographic database retrieval of COVID-19 publications, were also included in the search query (LaLonde, 2020).…”

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Sub-Saharan African Countries’ COVID-19 Research: An analysis of the External and Internal Contributions, Collaboration Patterns and Funding Sources

Asubiaro

Shaik

2021

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This study aims at providing some evidence-based insight into Sub-Saharan Africa's first eighteen months of COVID-19 research by evaluating its research contributions, patterns of collaboration, and funding sources. Eighteen months (2020 January 1-2021 June 30) COVID-19 publication data of 46 Sub-Saharan African countries was collected from Scopus for analysis. Country of affiliation of the authors and funding agencies data was analyzed to understand country contributions, collaboration pattern and funding sources. USA (23.08%) and the UK (19.63%), the top two external contributors, collaborated with Sub-Saharan African countries about three times more than other countries. Collaborative papers between Sub-Saharan African countries - without contributions from outside the region- made up less than five percent of the sample, whereas over 50% of the papers were written in collaboration with researchers from outside the region. Organizations that are in USA and the UK funded 45% of all the COVID-19 research from Sub-Saharan Africa. 53.44% of all the funding from Sub-Saharan African countries came from South African organizations. This study provides evidence that pan-African COVID-19 research collaboration is low, perhaps due to poor funding and lack of institutional support within Sub-Saharan Africa. This mirrors the collaborative features of science in Sub-Saharan Africa before the COVID-19 pandemic. The high volume of international collaboration during the pandemic is a good development. There is also a strong need to forge more robust pan-African research collaboration networks, through funding from Africa's national and regional government organizations, with the specific objective of meeting local COVID-19 and other healthcare needs.

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Research on Covid-19: a disruptive phenomenon for bibliometrics

Cited by 41 publications

References 23 publications

A Rapid Review on the Influence of COVID-19 Lockdown and Quarantine Measures on Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the General Population

A Rapid Review on the Influence of COVID-19 Lockdown and Quarantine Measures on Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the General Population

Discovering temporal scientometric knowledge in COVID-19 scholarly production

Sub-Saharan African Countries’ COVID-19 Research: An analysis of the External and Internal Contributions, Collaboration Patterns and Funding Sources

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