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COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Tests: Bibliometric Analysis of the Scientific Literature

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt health systems worldwide, conducting Rapid Antigen Testing (RAT) at specified intervals has become an essential part of many people’s lives around the world. We identified and analyzed the academic literature on COVID-19 RAT. The Web of Science electroni...

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Autores principales: Yeung, Andy Wai Kan, Parvanov, Emil D., Nawaz, Faisal A., Rayan, Rehab A., Kletecka-Pulker, Maria, Willschke, Harald, Atanasov, Atanas G.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9566459/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36231789
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912493
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author Yeung, Andy Wai Kan
Parvanov, Emil D.
Nawaz, Faisal A.
Rayan, Rehab A.
Kletecka-Pulker, Maria
Willschke, Harald
Atanasov, Atanas G.
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Rayan, Rehab A.
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description As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt health systems worldwide, conducting Rapid Antigen Testing (RAT) at specified intervals has become an essential part of many people’s lives around the world. We identified and analyzed the academic literature on COVID-19 RAT. The Web of Science electronic database was queried on 6 July 2022 to find relevant publications. Publication and citation data were retrieved directly from the database. VOSviewer, a bibliometric software, was then used to relate these data to the semantic content from the titles, abstracts, and keywords. The analysis was based on data from 1000 publications. The most productive authors were from Japan and the United States, led by Dr. Koji Nakamura from Japan (n = 10, 1.0%). The most academically productive countries were in the North America, Europe and Asia, led by the United States of America (n = 266, 26.6%). Sensitivity (n = 32, 3.2%) and specificity (n = 23, 2.3%) were among the most frequently recurring author keywords. Regarding sampling methods, “saliva” (n = 54, 5.4%) was mentioned more frequently than “nasal swab” (n = 32, 3.2%) and “nasopharyngeal swab” (n = 22, 2.2%). Recurring scenarios that required RAT were identified: emergency department, healthcare worker, mass screening, airport, traveler, and workplace. Our bibliometric analysis revealed that COVID-19 RAT has been utilized in a range of studies. RAT results were cross-checked with RT-PCR tests for sensitivity and specificity. These results are consistent with comparable exchanges of methods, results or discussions among laboratorians, authors, institutions and publishers in the involved countries of the world.
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spelling pubmed-95664592022-10-15 COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Tests: Bibliometric Analysis of the Scientific Literature Yeung, Andy Wai Kan Parvanov, Emil D. Nawaz, Faisal A. Rayan, Rehab A. Kletecka-Pulker, Maria Willschke, Harald Atanasov, Atanas G. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt health systems worldwide, conducting Rapid Antigen Testing (RAT) at specified intervals has become an essential part of many people’s lives around the world. We identified and analyzed the academic literature on COVID-19 RAT. The Web of Science electronic database was queried on 6 July 2022 to find relevant publications. Publication and citation data were retrieved directly from the database. VOSviewer, a bibliometric software, was then used to relate these data to the semantic content from the titles, abstracts, and keywords. The analysis was based on data from 1000 publications. The most productive authors were from Japan and the United States, led by Dr. Koji Nakamura from Japan (n = 10, 1.0%). The most academically productive countries were in the North America, Europe and Asia, led by the United States of America (n = 266, 26.6%). Sensitivity (n = 32, 3.2%) and specificity (n = 23, 2.3%) were among the most frequently recurring author keywords. Regarding sampling methods, “saliva” (n = 54, 5.4%) was mentioned more frequently than “nasal swab” (n = 32, 3.2%) and “nasopharyngeal swab” (n = 22, 2.2%). Recurring scenarios that required RAT were identified: emergency department, healthcare worker, mass screening, airport, traveler, and workplace. Our bibliometric analysis revealed that COVID-19 RAT has been utilized in a range of studies. RAT results were cross-checked with RT-PCR tests for sensitivity and specificity. These results are consistent with comparable exchanges of methods, results or discussions among laboratorians, authors, institutions and publishers in the involved countries of the world. MDPI 2022-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9566459/ /pubmed/36231789 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912493 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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