Spotlight on Early COVID-19 Research Productivity: A 1-Year Bibliometric Analysis

Frontiers in Public Health

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Panagiotis Giannos¹  Konstantinos S. Kechagias¹  Konstantinos Katsikas Triantafyllidis¹  Matthew E. Falagas⁵ 

[1] Society of Meta-Research and Biomedical Innovation;Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London;Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London;Department of Dietetics, West Suffolk Hospital NHS Foundation Trust;Alfa Institute of Biomedical Sciences

关键词: coronavirus;    COVID-19;    SARS-CoV-2;    bibliometrics;    scientometrics;    research productivity;    collaborations;    international;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2022.811885

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), one of the most serious public health crises in over a century, has led to an unprecedented surge of publications across all areas of knowledge. This study assessed the early research productivity on COVID-19 in terms of vaccination, diagnosis, treatment, symptoms, risk factors, nutrition, and economy. The Scopus database was searched between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020 to initially examine the research productivity on COVID-19, as measured by total publications by the 20 highest-ranked countries according to gross domestic product. The literature search was then refined, and research productivity was assessed across seven major research domains related to COVID-19: vaccination, diagnosis, treatment, symptoms, risk factors, nutrition, and economy. The initial literature search yielded 53,348 publications. Among these, 27,801 publications involved authorship from a single country and 22,119 publications involved authorship from multiple countries. Overall, the United States was the most productive country ( n = 13,491), with one and a half times or more publications than any other country, on COVID-19 and the selected domains related to it. However, following adjustment for population size, gross domestic product, and expenditure for research and development, countries of emerging economies such as India along countries of lower population density such as Switzerland, Indonesia, and Turkey exhibited higher research productivity. The surge of COVID-19 publications in such a short period of time underlines the capacity of the scientific community to respond against a global health emergency; however where future research priorities and resource distribution should be placed on the respective thematic fields at an international level, warrants further investigation.

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