biostudies-literatureUnknown8(13)Yu Y<h4>Background</h4>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.<h4>Methods</h4>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.<h4>Results</h4>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, Annals of translational medicine816https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC7396244biostudies-literatureA bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer of publications on COVID-19.PMC7396244Zha QLi YYang LZhang ZGu ZZhong HChen EYu YZhu CfalseA bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer of publications on COVID-19.<h4>Background</h4>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.<h4>Methods</h4>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.<h4>Results</h4>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, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z2020 Jul2025-04-25T17:40:13.869Z2025-04-06T06:17:40.152ZS-EPMC73962443279366110.21037/atm-20-4235