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The COVID-19 research landscape: Measuring topics and collaborations using scientific literature.
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21 citing papers in PubMed.
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- The most influential COVID-19 articles: A systematic review.New microbes and new infections · 2023Review
- Current global research landscape on COVID-19 and cancer: Bibliometric and visualization analysis.World journal of clinical oncology · 2022Article
- Tracking Openness and Topic Evolution of COVID-19 Publications January 2020-March 2021: Comprehensive Bibliometric and Topic Modeling Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Review
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- Mapping the landscape and structure of global research on nutrition and COVID-19: visualization analysis.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2022Article
- Visibility, collaboration and impact of the Cuban scientific output on COVID-19 in Scopus.Heliyon · 2021Article
- Bibliometric analysis of mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.Asian journal of psychiatry · 2021Review
- The Pandemic Year 2020: World Map of Coronavirus Research.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Article
- "Rehabilitation Research Framework for Patients With COVID-19" Defined by Cochrane Rehabilitation and the World Health Organization Rehabilitation Programme.Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation · 2021Article
- Current global research landscape on COVID-19 and depressive disorders: Bibliometric and visualization analysis.World journal of psychiatry · 2021Article
- Online dental teaching practices during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional online survey from China.BMC oral health · 2021Article
- The Arab region's contribution to global COVID-19 research: Bibliometric and visualization analysis.Globalization and health · 2021Article
- A bibliometric analysis of pandemic and epidemic studies in economics: future agenda for COVID-19 research.Social sciences & humanities open · 2021Article
- Bibliometric Analyses of Global Scholarly Output in Dentistry Related to COVID-19.Journal of International Society of Preventive & Community DentistryArticle
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Abstract
objectivesThe Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused heavy burdens and brought tremendous challenges to global public health. This study aimed to investigate collaboration relationships, research topics, and research trends on COVID-19 using scientific literature.
methodCOVID-19-related articles published from January 1 to July 1, 2020 were retrieved from PubMed database. A total of 27,370 articles were included. Excel 2010, Medical Text Indexer (MTI), VOSviewer, and D3.js were used to summarize bibliometric features.
resultsThe number of the COVID-19 research publications has been continuously increasing after its break. United States was the most productive and active country for COVID-19 research, with the largest number of publications and collaboration relationships. Huazhong University of Science and Technology from China was the most productive institute on the number of publications, and University of Toronto from Canada ranked as Top 1 institute for global research collaboration. Four key research topics were identified, of which the topic of epidemiology and public health interventions has gathered highest attentions. Topic of virus infection and immunity has been more focused during the early stage of COVID-19 outbreak compared with later stage. The topic popularity of clinical symptoms and diagnosis has been steady.
conclusionsOur topic analysis results revealed that the study of drug treatment was insufficient. To achieve critical breakthroughs of this research area, more interdisciplinary, multi-institutional, and global research collaborations are needed.
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