Open AccessLarge-Scale Bibliometric Analysis of Coronavirus
Author(s) -
Ali Mustafa Qamar,
Rehan Ullah Khan,
Suliman A. Alsuhibany
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of design and nature and ecodynamics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1755-7445
pISSN - 1755-7437
DOI - 10.18280/ijdne.160507
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , middle east respiratory syndrome , coronavirus , scopus , china , citation , citation impact , virology , geography , medicine , medline , disease , biology , library science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology , outbreak , computer science , biochemistry , archaeology
Coronavirus constitutes a family of RNA viruses causing respiratory tract infections in both humans and birds. A mild disease appears like the common cold, and in other cases, causes Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), or COVID-19. As compared to COVID-19, SARS and MERS were limited to certain countries. On the other hand, COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on Mar. 11, 2020. In this research, we perform the bibliometric assessment of Coronavirus research using the Scopus database. We studied 27,824 articles written by 64,903 researchers from 1951 till June 20, 2020, published in 3,858 different sources. More than 65% of research appeared in the form of articles. More than 34% of publications appeared in 2020, coinciding with the appearance of COVID-19. This also resulted in a sharp increase in the average citation from 2.2 observed in 2019 to 14.5 seen in the year 2020. The USA is the most-cited country, followed by China. Nevertheless, Russia appears as the most-cited country per year.