A scientometric analysis on coronaviruses research (1900–2020): Time for a continuous, cooperative and global approach

Malik, Ahmad Azam; Butt, Nadeem Shafique; Bashir, Mohammad; Gilani, Syed Amir

doi:10.1016/j.jiph.2020.12.008

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“…Ahmad and Batcha (2020) have taken a different approach, focusing solely on COVID-19 papers yet examining them over the years 2011-2020. Similarly, Tao et al (2020); Mao et al (2020); Zhai et al (2020); Malik et al (2021) studied the same for the years 2000-2020. These studies examined the publications' countries of origin, collaboration networks, authors, keywords and additional publication characteristics.…”

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“…These studies examined the publications' countries of origin, collaboration networks, authors, keywords and additional publication characteristics. Malik et al (2021) found that the number of nCOV related research papers has spiked several times in the last two decades, correlating with the post SARS and MERS pandemics. In the same vein, Kagan et al (2020) analysed publications related to multiple nCov viruses and compared those to influenza and additional viruses, and Zhang et al (2020) did a comparative bibliometric study of multiple outbreaks and performed a preliminary analysis of the COVID-19 outbreak.…”

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Publication patterns’ changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal and short-term scientometric analysis

2021

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In recent months the COVID-19 (also known as SARS-CoV-2 and Coronavirus) pandemic has spread throughout the world. In parallel, extensive scholarly research regarding various aspects of the pandemic has been published. In this work, we analyse the changes in biomedical publishing patterns due to the pandemic. We study the changes in the volume of publications in both peer reviewed journals and preprint servers, average time to acceptance of papers submitted to biomedical journals, international (co-)authorship of these papers (expressed by diversity and volume), and the possible association between journal metrics and said changes. We study these possible changes using two approaches: a shortterm analysis through which changes during the first six months of the outbreak are examined for both COVID-19 related papers and non-COVID-19 related papers; and a longitudinal approach through which changes are examined in comparison to the previous four years. Our results show that the pandemic has so far had a tremendous effect on all examined accounts of scholarly publications: A sharp increase in publication volume has been witnessed and it can be almost entirely attributed to the pandemic; a significantly faster mean time to acceptance for COVID-19 papers is apparent, and it has (partially) come at the expense of non-COVID-19 papers; and a significant reduction in international collaboration for COVID-19 papers has also been identified. As the pandemic continues to spread, these changes may cause a slow down in research in non-COVID-19 biomedical fields and bring about a lower rate of international collaboration.

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Publication patterns’ changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal and short-term scientometric analysis

2021

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“…Based on the studies indicating that research tends to surge in the first 2 to 3 years after the emergence of an infectious disease, this study analyzed the publications from 2020 to study the early response of academia to COVID-19 [29][30][31]. To decrease false-positive results and increase accuracy during reference research, this study searched for titles that best captured the theme of articles and that contained terms including "Coronavirus", "COVID", or "SARS-CoV-2" [31,51,52]. This study used the term COVID, even though the WHO officially named the disease COVID-19, so as to not exclude early publications that used the name COVID-2019 (i.e., the shortened version of coronavirus disease 2019).…”

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“…The findings revealed that after the emergence of SARS and MERS, research publications emerged rapidly across all three databases. Malik et al [31] studied articles related to coronavirus after 1900 (a total of 28,846 articles) and observed a surge in publications in 2003-2006 and 2013-2016, when SARS and MERS emerged, respectively. Specifically, 4009 articles (13.9%) were published between 1900 and 1999, 11,403 articles (39.5%) between 2000 and 2019, and 13,434 articles (46.5%) in 2020.…”

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A Review of Global Collaboration on COVID-19 Research during the Pandemic in 2020

Kim

Cho

2021

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In response to the COVID-19 crisis, which has become a severe threat to the health and sustainability of human life, scholars have published numerous research results. Although the importance of international research collaboration has been highlighted as a means of overcoming this global crisis, research on this particular problem has been lacking. Therefore, this study focused on the response of academia to COVID-19 by examining the collaboration between international research, and its impact. This study extracted data from Scopus, sampling articles and reviews published in 2020. By analyzing scenarios by country and international research collaboration based on data on authors’ nationalities and the research areas of documents, this study revealed that the United States and China contributed the most. In all countries, most research was conducted on medicine. European and American countries demonstrated significant interest in the social sciences and Asian countries in the life sciences. Furthermore, some countries, including Belgium and Pakistan, extended their research interests through international research collaboration. The results of this study highlight the importance of international research collaboration across various areas by overcoming the regional imbalance in intercountry collaboration and the concentration on a limited scope of subjects.

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“…When the Pubmed database was examined, it was found that there were 173 COVID-19 related bibliometric analyzes. Only five of them used the WOS database (12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17). We used the WOS database, too, as it has the highest quality indexing journals.…”

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Trends of COVID 19 Vaccines: International Collaboration and Visualized Analysis

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AKYÜZ

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Infect Dis Clin Microbiol

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oronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declined as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020. The initial diagnosis of the disease was made in a very complex process. In addition to treating and preventing its spread, vaccination studies have been started rapidly (1). Since January 24, 2020, the University of Queensland in Australia started the COVID-19 vaccine development study, many vaccine studies, including our country, continue globally (1, 2). In February 2020, the WHO announced that it does not expect a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 to be available in less than 18 months (3).

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A scientometric analysis on coronaviruses research (1900–2020): Time for a continuous, cooperative and global approach

Cited by 23 publications

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Publication patterns’ changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal and short-term scientometric analysis

Publication patterns’ changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal and short-term scientometric analysis

A Review of Global Collaboration on COVID-19 Research during the Pandemic in 2020

Trends of COVID 19 Vaccines: International Collaboration and Visualized Analysis

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