A bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer of publications on COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As a global pandemic, COVID-19 has aroused great concern in the last few months and a growing number of related researches have been published. Therefore, a bibliometric analysis of these publications may provide a direction of hot topics and future research trends.

Methods

The global literatures about COVID-19 published between 2019 and 2020 were scanned in the Web of Science collection database. "COVID-19" "Novel Coronavirus" "2019-nCoV" and "SARS-CoV-2" were used as the keywords to reach the relevant publications. VOSviewer was applied to perform the bibliometric analysis of these articles.

Results

Totally 3,626 publications on the topic of COVID-19 were identified and "COVID-19" with a total link strength of 2,649 appeared as the most frequent keyword,

SUBMITTER: Yu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7396244 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature