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Global analysis of the COVID-19 research landscape and scientific impact
OBJECTIVES: To consider a 1-year time window of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis to integrate qualitative and quantitative data and provide an in-depth analysis of all COVID-19 publications from geographical, epidemiological and chronological perspectives. METHODS: Publications on COVI...
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Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc.
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8720495/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34986389 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.12.025 |
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author | Chen, Ying Chen, Shixiang Ma, Bingxin Duan, Zhaoxia Yang, Jin Wang, Yulu Zhang, Xiaojun Huang, Yaqi Zhang, Yanwen Deng, Cuiyu Lu, Qi Wang, Yaogang Zhao, Yue |
author_facet | Chen, Ying Chen, Shixiang Ma, Bingxin Duan, Zhaoxia Yang, Jin Wang, Yulu Zhang, Xiaojun Huang, Yaqi Zhang, Yanwen Deng, Cuiyu Lu, Qi Wang, Yaogang Zhao, Yue |
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description | OBJECTIVES: To consider a 1-year time window of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis to integrate qualitative and quantitative data and provide an in-depth analysis of all COVID-19 publications from geographical, epidemiological and chronological perspectives. METHODS: Publications on COVID-19 from December 1, 2019, to December 31, 2020 without document type limitations were extracted from the Web of Science database. Microsoft Excel 2016, GraphPad Prism 9, VOSviewer 1.6.15 and IBM SPSS 21.0 were used to analyze the global epidemiological publication landscape and its correlations, research hotspots around the world and the top 5 countries in terms of publications. RESULTS: A total of 51,317 documents were analyzed in the present study. The publication trend could be divided into an increasing output stage and an explosive output stage. There were positive correlations between monthly publications, confirmed cases and deaths. Research hotspots from the whole year, from individual quarters, and from the top 5 countries with the most publications were further identified. CONCLUSIONS: The correlation analysis of publications indicated that confirmed cases and deaths were forces driving the scientific output, reflecting the growing trend to some extent. Moreover, the hotspot analysis provided valuable information for scientists, funders, policy and decision-makers to determine what areas should be their focus when faced with public health emergencies in the future. |
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spelling | pubmed-87204952022-01-03 Global analysis of the COVID-19 research landscape and scientific impact Chen, Ying Chen, Shixiang Ma, Bingxin Duan, Zhaoxia Yang, Jin Wang, Yulu Zhang, Xiaojun Huang, Yaqi Zhang, Yanwen Deng, Cuiyu Lu, Qi Wang, Yaogang Zhao, Yue Am J Infect Control Global Perspective Article OBJECTIVES: To consider a 1-year time window of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis to integrate qualitative and quantitative data and provide an in-depth analysis of all COVID-19 publications from geographical, epidemiological and chronological perspectives. METHODS: Publications on COVID-19 from December 1, 2019, to December 31, 2020 without document type limitations were extracted from the Web of Science database. Microsoft Excel 2016, GraphPad Prism 9, VOSviewer 1.6.15 and IBM SPSS 21.0 were used to analyze the global epidemiological publication landscape and its correlations, research hotspots around the world and the top 5 countries in terms of publications. RESULTS: A total of 51,317 documents were analyzed in the present study. The publication trend could be divided into an increasing output stage and an explosive output stage. There were positive correlations between monthly publications, confirmed cases and deaths. Research hotspots from the whole year, from individual quarters, and from the top 5 countries with the most publications were further identified. CONCLUSIONS: The correlation analysis of publications indicated that confirmed cases and deaths were forces driving the scientific output, reflecting the growing trend to some extent. Moreover, the hotspot analysis provided valuable information for scientists, funders, policy and decision-makers to determine what areas should be their focus when faced with public health emergencies in the future. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022-04 2022-01-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8720495/ /pubmed/34986389 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.12.025 Text en © 2022 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Global Perspective Article Chen, Ying Chen, Shixiang Ma, Bingxin Duan, Zhaoxia Yang, Jin Wang, Yulu Zhang, Xiaojun Huang, Yaqi Zhang, Yanwen Deng, Cuiyu Lu, Qi Wang, Yaogang Zhao, Yue Global analysis of the COVID-19 research landscape and scientific impact |
title | Global analysis of the COVID-19 research landscape and scientific impact |
title_full | Global analysis of the COVID-19 research landscape and scientific impact |
title_fullStr | Global analysis of the COVID-19 research landscape and scientific impact |
title_full_unstemmed | Global analysis of the COVID-19 research landscape and scientific impact |
title_short | Global analysis of the COVID-19 research landscape and scientific impact |
title_sort | global analysis of the covid-19 research landscape and scientific impact |
topic | Global Perspective Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8720495/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34986389 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.12.025 |
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