Visual analysis of hotspots and trends in long COVID research based on bibliometric.

ABSTRACT: After severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, a series of symptoms may persist for a long time, which is now called long COVID. It was found that long COVID can affect all patients with COVID-19. Therefore, long COVID has become a hot topic. In this study, we used the WOS database as a sample data source to conduct a bibliometric and visual analysis of 1765 long COVID articles over the past three years through VOSviewer and R package. The results show that countries/authors in Europe and The United States of America contribute most of the articles, and their cooperation is also the most active. Keyword co-occurrence identified four clusters, with important topics including the mechanism, clinical symptoms, epidemiological characteristics, and management/trea

SUBMITTER: Lai Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10827472 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature