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ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021

Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data and the Internet of Things to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scientometric Review Using Text Mining.

Ignacio Rodríguez-Rodríguez, José-Víctor Rodríguez, Niloofar Shirvanizadeh, Andrés Ortiz, Domingo-Javier Pardo-Quiles

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Review in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Machine learning algorithms applied to the diagnosis of COVID-19 based on epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory data.Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia · 2025
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  13. European IoT Use in Homes: Opportunity or Threat to Households?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  14. The Trends and Hotspots in Premature Ovarian Insufficiency Therapy from 2000 to 2022.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ignacio Rodríguez-RodríguezProtein Structure and Bioinformatics Resech Group, Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, SE-221 84 Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-0118-3406
José-Víctor RodríguezDepartamento de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones, School of Telecommunications Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, 30202 Cartagena, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-3298-6439
Niloofar ShirvanizadehProtein Structure and Bioinformatics Resech Group, Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, SE-221 84 Lund, Sweden.
Andrés OrtizDepartamento de Ingeniería de Comunicaciones, School of Telecommunications Engineering, Universidad de Málaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-2690-1926
Domingo-Javier Pardo-QuilesDepartamento de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones, School of Telecommunications Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, 30202 Cartagena, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3240-2568

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc in every country in the world, with serious health-related, economic, and social consequences. Since its outbreak in March 2020, many researchers from different fields have joined forces to provide a wide range of solutions, and the support for this work from artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging concepts linked to intelligent data analysis has been decisive. The enormous amount of research and the high number of publications during this period makes it difficult to obtain an overall view of the different applications of AI to the management of COVID-19 and an understanding of how research in this field has been evolving. Therefore, in this paper, we carry out a scientometric analysis of this area supported by text mining, including a review of 18,955 publications related to AI and COVID-19 from the Scopus database from March 2020 to June 2021 inclusive. For this purpose, we used VOSviewer software, which was developed by researchers at Leiden University in the Netherlands. This allowed us to examine the exponential growth in research on this issue and its distribution by country, and to highlight the clear hegemony of the United States (USA) and China in this respect. We used an automatic process to extract topics of research interest and observed that the most important current lines of research focused on patient-based solutions. We also identified the most relevant journals in terms of the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrated the growing value of open-access publication, and highlighted the most influential authors by means of an analysis of citations and co-citations. This study provides an overview of the current status of research on the application of AI to the pandemic.

Indexed as

COVID-19Internet of ThingsArtificial IntelligenceBig DataData MiningHumansMachine LearningPandemicsSARS-CoV-2artificial intelligenceCOVID-19machine learningscientometricstext miningVOSviewer

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PMID34444327
PMCPMC8393243

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