What We Know about Top 1000 Highly-Cited COVID-19 Papers: A Bibliometric Analysis

• DOI: 10.22037/orlfps.v7i1.36529
• Publication Date: 2021-10-25
• Authors: Davoud Haseli; Heidar Mokhtari; Arezoo Farhadi; Zahra Shamloo; Mohammad Karim Sa...; Nafiseh Rezaei

Background: Highly cited papers are considered publications with a great impact on scientific community and have been deeply investigated in different fields. Aim: This study aimed at analyzing visualizing the top 1000 highly COVID-19. Methods: As bibliometric study, this was conducted by retrieving highly-cited COVID-19 published during 2019-2021 from Scopus. The search strategy to obtain 35 related keywords/terms as main term MeSH searching them fields of paper titles, abstracts, keywords. Bibliometric techniques such co-citation analysis, co-authorship analysis word co-occurrence were used for study. Data visualization done applying VOSviewer software package GunnMap. Results: China, United States America (USA), Kingdom (UK) publishing 418, 353, 149, mostly ranked first-to-third, respectively. contributing research institutes China USA. three most productive institutions Huazhong University Science Technology (N=83), Tongji Medical College (N=76), Wuhan (N=64), New England Journal Medicine, Lancet JAMA first third these papers, Collaborating countries mainly European origin. Research USA, UK had higher collaboration. Keyword clustering showed that clinical features laboratory descriptions, risk factors, pathogenic immunological aspects well managerial urgent preparation disease topics high concern concentration. Conclusion: is can be beneficial researchers identifying important topics, active producing agents existing gaps literature disease. It conceived reference guide conducting other studies investigation.