2020/08/24 by Ahmad, Muneer, M Sadik Batcha, Batcha, M Sadik +1 · 1 citation
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Health Professions · Mathematics · #COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts #COVID-19 epidemiological studies #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #Diverse Scientific Research Studies #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2102.09900
openalex publication_date 2021/02/19 · openalex created_date 2021/07/19 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The paper explores and analyses the trend of world literature on "Coronavirus\nDisease" in terms of the output of research publications as indexed in the\nScience Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) of Web of Science during the period\nfrom 2011 to 2020. The study found that 6071 research records have been\npublished on Coronavirus Disease till March 20, 2020. The various scientometric\ncomponents of the research records published in the study period were studied.\nThe study reveals the various aspects of Coronavirus Disease literature such as\nyear wise distribution, relative growth rate, doubling time of literature,\ngeographical wise, organization wise, language wise, form wise , most prolific\nauthors, and source wise. The highest number of articles was published in the\nyear 2019, while lowest numbers of research article were reported in the year\n2020. Further, the relative growth rate is gradually increases and on the other\nhand doubling time decreases. Most of the research publications are published\nin English language and most of the publications published in the form of\nresearch articles. USA is the highest contributor to the field of Coronavirus\nDisease literature.\n