Spotlight on Early Covid-19 Research Productivity
A 1-Year Bibliometric Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22085705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Panagiotis Giannos (0000-0003-1037-1983, Imperial College London, corresponding author), Konstantinos S Kechagias (0000-0001-6681-8479, Imperial College London, corresponding author), Konstantinos Katsikas Triantafyllidis (0000-0002-3858-4473, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust), Matthew E Falagas (0000-0002-5905-2695, Alfa Institute of Biomedical Sciences) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Pages | 811885-811885 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Frontiers in Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2296-2565 • E-ISSN: 2296-2565 |
| Publisher | Frontiers Media SA (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3389/fpubh.2022.811885 |
| PMID | 35712290 |
| OpenAlex | W4281645465 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 34 |
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
Business · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Geography · Gross domestic product · MEDLINE · Political science · Population · Productivity · Public health · Scopus · Socioeconomics · Sociology · COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · Demography · Medicine · SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
The bibliometric analysis of scholarly production
Clinical course and outcomes of critically ill patients with Sars-CoV-2 pneumonia in Wuhan, China
Outbreak of pneumonia of unknown etiology in Wuhan, China
The continuing 2019-nCoV epidemic threat of novel coronaviruses to global health — The latest 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China
Covid-19 — Navigating the Uncharted
An interactive web-based dashboard to track Covid-19 in real time
The socio-economic implications of the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19)
Understanding the temporal evolution of Covid-19 research through machine learning and natural language processing
Temporal evolution, most influential studies and sleeping beauties of the coronavirus literature
How scientific research reacts to international public health emergencies
International collaboration during the Covid-19 crisis
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |