Investigating the emerging COVID-19 research trends in the field of business and management: A bibliometric analysis approach

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

“…However, according to the growth of number of documents in June 2020, social sciences seem to be the most growing scientific discipline, as the total number of documents in this subject area increased by 85.5% and even by 138.7% in pure social sciences. This is consistent with the expectations as well as with recent COVID-19 bibliometric studies on economics (see Mahi et al [29]) and business and management (see Verma and Gustafsson [30]). Namely, the first immediate response to COVID-19 pandemic is the protection of public health, while the real socio-economic consequences occur later.…”

“…Moreover, some of the existing bibliometric studies consider only a single country in their analysis (for Indian case see Vasantha Raju and Patil [26]) and some of them are focused on top cited COVID-19 publications (see ElHawary et al [27]). Finally, some of the previous COVID-19 bibliometric studies provide in-depth analysis in the field of traditional Chinese medicine (see Yang et al [28]), economics (see Mahi et al [29]) and business and management (see Verma and Gustafsson [30]).…”

Analysis of the scientific production of the effect of COVID-19 on the environment: A bibliometric study

“…Moreover, academics are turning to bibliometric surveys to facilitate navigating through the scientific databases to synthesize and simplify access to the findings of research on COVID-19. Despite the fact that COVID-19 bibliometric studies have been carried out in the fields of biology and medicine ( Bonilla-Aldana et al, 2020 ), socioeconomics ( Verma and Gustafsson, 2020 ) and tourism ( Sigala, 2020 ), no study of this ilk has explored the growing number of COVID-19-related scientific publications in the field of environmental research. The current article therefore is the first bibliometric analysis making use of SciMAT software to evaluate the publications on COVID-19 linked to environmental studies between 1 December 2019 and 6 September 2020.…”

“… Bonilla-Aldana et al (2020) and Radanliev et al (2020) proceeded further by evaluating the scientific literature on coronavirus types and potential vaccine treatments. Verma and Gustafsson (2020) in the sphere of socioeconomics conducted a bibliometric study of COVID-19 literature in the domains of business and management so as to identify current areas of research and propose future lines of research. Sigala (2020) , in the field of tourism, likewise undertook a critical review on the impacts and implications of COVID-19 so as to offer solutions to reset the industry.…”

Strategies for the preservation of service levels in the inventory management during COVID-19. A Case study in a company of biosafety products.

“…It´s a need to produce literature about successful business practices in the management of this uncertainty, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic (Verma and Gustafsson 2020), where the business as usual is no longer effective, particularly in the inventory processes. The current situation has boostered researchers to propose a new risk de nition for the chain supply.…”