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Abstract
The paper is an attempt to analyze the publications on COVID-19, an infectious disease which has been declared a pandemic by WHO. The publications during Jan-March 2020 have been selected for the study that has been indexed in Scopus database till March 31, 2020. It was found that during this span of three months, 884 documents have been published on COVID-19 in the form of articles, news, letters, notes, editorials, reviews, short surveys and erratum. These documents received a total of 2603 citations and six documents received even more than 100 citations. China has contributed maximum documents and Huazhong University of Science and Technology was the top contributor. The Lancet and BMJ Clinical Research Ed were the most preferred journals. A large number of documents had international collaborations.