Twenty-five years of global research publications trends of novel coronavirus: A scientometrics assessment

Authors

Md.safiqur rahaman, Librarian, Deanship of Library affairs, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, KSAFollow
suchetan kumar, Assistant librarian,kumaun university, DSB Campus Nainital,263001,IndiaFollow
Khadeeja M.N Ansari, College of Design, College of Design, P.O. 1982, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, KSAFollow
Md Rafiqur Rahman, Research Scholar, Department of Library and Information Science, Shri Jagdishprasad Jhabarmal Tibrewala University, Rajisthan., IndiaFollow

Date of this Version

Winter 1-10-2021

Document Type

Article

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the trends and characteristics of the publication on the novel coronavirus. A total of 2661 publications from Scopus downloaded in the bib.text andCVSformat for 25 years to analyze by using scientometrics analysis software, namely Bibliometrix and Vosviewer. The results show that there is very little research conducted before 2002, but exponentially increased after 2003 and 2020 shows the highest number of publications (779). The result reveals that the 1806 publication is in the form of research articles, i.e., 68%. "University Of Hong Kong" has produced the highest publication, i.e., 362. The "Journal of Virology" (JIF = 4.324) has ranked1 interms of the number of total publications (173), total citation (9618), g index (90), and h index (57) respectively. "Yuen KY" found as the prolific author (75) and has more collaborative publication (62) as well. The author's keyword "coronavirus" considered the more reliable keyword. The most cited (TC = 2194) article is "A Novel Coronavirus Associated with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome" by Ksiazek TG (2003). The study is beneficial for researchers who are currently doing or planning research on coronavirus.