The scientific literature on Coronaviruses, COVID-19 and its associated safety-related research dimensions: A scientometric analysis and scoping review

Haghani, Milad; Bliemer, Michiel C.J.; Goerlandt, Floris; Li, Jie

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2020.104806

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“…Unlike prior analyses of the scientific literature on coronaviruses, ours did not limit to records in English ( Liu et al, 2020 ; Nowakowska et al, 2020 ; Tao et al, 2020 ; Zhai et al, 2020 ) or English and Chinese only ( Yu et al, 2020 ). We additionally extracted records from more than two databases ( Haghani et al, 2020 ; Liu et al, 2020 ) and included editorials, commentaries, letters, case reports, news, and narrative reviews ( Liu et al, 2020 ; Yu et al, 2020 ). In addition to looking at the number and countries of origin of publications, we also examined indicators related to international collaboration, funding, and research quality.…”

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“…Recently published bibliometric analyses either looked at research output on various scientific and medical topics of all coronavirus outbreaks including the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) ( Bonilla-Aldana et al, 2020 ; Haghani et al, 2020 ; Liu et al, 2020 ; Tao et al, 2020 ; Yu et al, 2020 ; Zhai et al, 2020 ) or were limited to the current COVID-19 pandemic overall ( De Felice and Polimeni, 2020 ; Nowakowska et al, 2020 ). Our study is unique in that it examined an underexplored area in the COVID-19 research ( Liu et al, 2020 ), namely, the trend in mental health research, and compared the findings with two prior distinct viral outbreaks.…”

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Mental health research in response to the COVID-19, Ebola, and H1N1 outbreaks: A comparative bibliometric analysis

Maalouf

Mdawar

Meho

et al. 2021

Journal of Psychiatric Research

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Introduction Both the COVID-19 pandemic and its management have had a negative impact on mental health worldwide. There is a growing body of research on mental health as it relates to the pandemic. The objective of this study is to use bibliometric analyses to assess the mental health research output related to the COVID-19 pandemic and compare it to that of the West Africa Ebola and H1N1 outbreaks. Methodology We performed comprehensive searches in Embase, PubMed, and Scopus databases, and included all types of documents related to the three outbreaks published since the respective beginnings up to August 26, 2020. Results Despite the shorter time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, relative to Ebola and H1N1, we found a much greater number of mental health documents related to COVID-19 (n=3,070) compared to the two other outbreaks (127 for Ebola and 327 for H1N1). The proportion of documents in the top 10% journals was 31% for COVID-19, 24% for Ebola, and 40% for H1N1. Authors affiliated with institutions located in high-income countries published or contributed to 79% of all documents followed by authors from upper-middle-income countries (23%), lower-middle-income countries (10%), and low-income countries (2%). Approximately 19% of the documents reported receiving funding and 23% were the product of international collaboration. Conclusion Mental health research output is already greater for COVID-19 compared to Ebola and H1N1 combined. A minority of documents reported funding, was the product of international collaboration, or was published by authors located in low-income countries during the three outbreaks in general, and the COVID-19 pandemic in particular.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mental health research in response to the COVID-19, Ebola, and H1N1 outbreaks: A comparative bibliometric analysis

Maalouf

Mdawar

Meho

et al. 2021

Journal of Psychiatric Research

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“…Haghani, M., Bliemer, M. C., Goerlandt, F., & Li, J. (2020) [10] conducted analysis that identi es a variety of potential problems induced by this world health crisis that has attracted only narrow research attention but may warrant more interest. It included issues such as internet security, economic security, and the protection of supply chains.…”

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Scientometrics analysis of recent trends in Global Corona virus Research

Krishnamurthy

Deshpande

Sajana³

2020

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Background: The worldwide pandemic COVID-19 has produced a wealth of research more rapidly after the outbreak. In just a couple of months, there is a rise in several studies on Coronavirus, adding up to the scholarly literature.Method: The current study attempts to Scientometric analyze very recent literature on Coronaviruses just before and after the outbreak. Besides, the objective of this exploration was to assess the global research progress on Coronavirus in recent times. The current research is an analytical descriptive study using Scientometrics. The study sample includes research papers about the Coronavirus indexed in Web of Science (WoS) database from January 1, 2019 to May 14, 2020. The records with topic search (includes Title, Abstract, Keywords and Keywords Plus) “coronavirus” were extracted. These data were analyzed by MS Excel and the visualizations were created using TableauResult: The results showed that 2551 scientific literature about the Coronavirus was indexed in WoS. A considerable number of these articles were published in journals such as the Journal of Medical Virology, Viruses, Nature, and Lancet. Authors from China, USA and Italy were the most prolific authors. About 47.51% articles received total of 11435 citations with an average of 9 citations, which indicates that nearly half articles were cited in another publication. The highest and lowest citations for these articles were 737 and 1, respectively.Conclusion: These results show a high rate of research on Coronavirus.

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“…In their review of the existing global COVID-19 literature, Haghani et al (2020) discovered that most studies have focused on drug safety, vaccine safety, the safety of pregnant women, and safety issues related to mental health. This study supports these results, suggesting that interest in these issues is shared by countries across the globe.…”

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Co-evolution of COVID-19 Research and China’s Policies

Cheng¹,

Tang

Zhou

et al. 2020

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The dynamics of research are a prism that reflects interactions between science, the societal environment, and government policies. Against the backdrop of the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, this study explored the changes in, and development of, COVID-19 research in the period from December 30, 2019 to April 27, 2020. The study observes a salient change in research content: an earlier focus on “all patients”, “common symptoms”, and “nucleic acid test” was gradually replaced by a focus on “children”, “pregnant patients”, “severe symptoms”, and a combination of “nucleic acid test” and “antibody assay”. Some topics such as “vaccine R&D”, “knowledge, attitude, and practice” (KAP), and “mental health” were persistent throughout the recent history of China’s COVID-19 research. This study also reveals a correlation between the evolution of COVID-19 policies and the dynamic development of COVID-19 research. In the early stage of the outbreak in China, the formulation of COVID-19 policies followed a rapidly-progressing co-evolutionary model (CEM). The results of this study apply more broadly to the formulation of policies in public health emergencies, especially in the early stages.

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The scientific literature on Coronaviruses, COVID-19 and its associated safety-related research dimensions: A scientometric analysis and scoping review

Cited by 218 publications

References 100 publications

Mental health research in response to the COVID-19, Ebola, and H1N1 outbreaks: A comparative bibliometric analysis

Mental health research in response to the COVID-19, Ebola, and H1N1 outbreaks: A comparative bibliometric analysis

Scientometrics analysis of recent trends in Global Corona virus Research

Co-evolution of COVID-19 Research and China’s Policies

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