Map of trends in scientific production in covid-19: bibliometric analysis

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Torres-Pascual, C., Àvila-Castells, P., Torrell-Vallespín, S., Sánchez-Pérez, HJ., and Romero-Sandoval, N

Based on a bibliometric study, this study shows published research trends related to the COVID-19 pandemic. For this, the databases PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Cochrane and DOAJ (12/01/19 to 04/01/2020) were consulted. 2,748 documents published in 820 journals were consulted. Production growth has been exponential R2=0.99. According to the productivity index, prolific authors (0.20%), medium producers (16.33%) and occasional authors (83.47%) were identified. The main countries by volume of work and international collaboration in the period analysed are China (53.31%), the United States (21.43%) and Italy (11.75%). 78.96% of the articles are co-authored 6.73±6.25 and 11.86% an international collaboration rate 2.85±1.74. The magazines with more than 50 works are: British Medical Journal, New England Journal of Medicine, Nature and JAMA. 91.30% is published in English. The impact of COVID-19 worldwide requires studies, preferably in international collaboration, in order to establish health policies at a global level.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2020.21989.4330
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