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. 2021 Jan 29;20(1):107-118.
doi: 10.1007/s40200-020-00718-7. eCollection 2021 Jun.

Scientometric analyzing the output of researchers and organizations on COVID-19 for better conducting the scientific efforts: with a glance to endocrinology

Rasha Atlasi  1   2 , Abdolreza Noroozi Chakoli  3 , Aboozar Ramezani  4 , Ozra Tabatabaei-Malazy  5   6 , Bagher Larijani  6
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Scientometric analyzing the output of researchers and organizations on COVID-19 for better conducting the scientific efforts: with a glance to endocrinology

Rasha Atlasi et al. J Diabetes Metab Disord. .

Abstract

Purpose: As COVID-19 spreads rapidly and could affect the people and also lead to their death, especially individuals with underlying diseases, such as diabetes, the research community is also active in publishing novel research about it. Analyzing scientific outputs in this topic can represent an overview of publications. For this purpose, this study was conducted to determine status of publishing research works related to COVID-19 and analyzing the all documents published and indexed in Web of Science database and illustrate the co-occurrence and co-authority of hot papers in this documents.

Methodology: Our search strategy was based on using the related key terms including COVID-19, coronavirus, SARS2, etc., to find out all the published scientific works related to coronavirus disease indexed in web of science (WoS) in 2020. We then extracted the all hot papers and especially hot papers in endocrinology category and analyzed them. The data saved and imported in VOSviewer and ScientoPy programs for analysis and illustration of our data. We have shown our analysis in the tables, figures and maps.

Results: Totally, 56,402 records and 309 hot papers were retrieved. 3 of these hot papers were in endocrinology category. The most common type of publication was original papers followed by editorial papers in the second rank. The country with the most published documents was the USA followed by China. The journals of "British Medical Journal" and "Journal of Medical Virology" were ranked as the first and second sources, respectively. The "Harvard University" was the top organization with high proportion of scientific publications and "the Lancet" was the top-ranked journal that published highly-cited papers.

Conclusion: The literature on COVID-19 is increasing with a high and fast growth. In this regard, there is a need to evaluate these publications once in a while and their results should be published to use this information for more effective management of future research works with emphasizes on the gaps of researches and more citable documents and allocation of budgets on more needed research and don't carry out the duplicates research. This would be helpful for prevention, control, and treatment of COVID-19 that is now among the most common topics in the world.

Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus; Scientific production; Scientometrics.

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Document types for the retrieved 56, 402 publications
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The top ten research areas of publications
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Co-occurrence network mapping of the keywords related to COVID-19 in hot papers
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Twenty-five trending topics of COVID-19 based on the keywords҆ evolution plot
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Visualization of co-authorship network of the authors in hot papers
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Visualization of co-authorship network of the countries published hot papers related to COVID-19
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Network visualization of co-authorship for organizations in publishing the hot papers
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Density visualization of citation of the journals for hot papers
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Network visualization for co-citation of cited references
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Network visualization for co-citation of cited sources
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