COVID-19 will stimulate a new coronavirus research breakthrough: a 20-year bibliometric analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COVID-19 is currently rampant in China, causing unpredictable harm to humans. This study aimed to quantitatively and qualitatively investigate the research trends on coronaviruses using bibliometric analysis to identify new prevention strategies.

Methods

All relevant publications on coronaviruses were extracted from 2000-2020 from the Web of Science database. An online analysis platform of literature metrology, bibliographic item co-occurrence matrix builder (BICOMB) and CiteSpace software were used to analyse the publication trends. VOSviewer was used to analyse the keywords and research hotspots and compare COVID-19 information with SARS and MERS information.

Results

We found a total of 9,760 publications related to coronaviruses published from 2000 to 20

SUBMITTER: Tao Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7214912 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature