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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022

SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Trend during the First Two Years of the Pandemic in the United Arab Emirates: A PRISMA-Compliant Bibliometric Analysis.

Basem Al-Omari, Tauseef Ahmad, Rami H Al-Rifai

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. SARS-CoV-2 and reproductive system: a scientometric study.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Basem Al-OmariDepartment of Epidemiology and Population Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi P.O. Box 127788, United Arab Emirates.ORCID 0000-0002-7804-8050
Tauseef AhmadVanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8793-273X
Rami H Al-RifaiCOVID-19 Research Epidemiology Sub-Committee of Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Public Health Center, Abu Dhabi Department of Health, Abu Dhabi P.O. Box 5674, United Arab Emirates.ORCID 0000-0001-6102-0353

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Scientific research is an integral part of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. This bibliometric analysis describes the COVID-19 research productivity of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-affiliated researchers during the first two years of the pandemic, 2020 to 2022. The Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) database was utilized to retrieve publications related to COVID-19 published by UAE-affiliated researcher(s). A total of 1008 publications met the inclusion criteria and were included in this bibliometric analysis. The most studied broad topics were general internal medicine (11.9%), public environmental occupational health (7.8%), pharmacology/pharmacy (6.3%), multidisciplinary sciences (5%), and infectious diseases (3.4%). About 67% were primary research articles, 16% were reviews, and the remaining were editorials letters (11.5%), meeting abstracts/proceedings papers (5%), and document corrections (0.4%). The University of Sharjah was the leading UAE-affiliated organization achieving 26.3% of the publications and funding 1.8% of the total 1008 published research. This study features the research trends in COVID-19 research affiliated with the UAE and shows the future directions. There was an observable nationally and international collaboration of the UAE-affiliated authors, particularly with researchers from the USA and England. This study highlights the need for in-depth systematic reviews addressing the specific COVID-19 research-related questions and studied populations.

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COVID-19SARS-CoV-2BibliometricsHumansPandemicsUnited Arab Emiratesbibliometric analysisCOVID-19SARS-CoV-2UAEUnited Arab Emirates

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PMCPMC9266175

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