Plotting the Literature on Precautionary Measures of COVID-19: A Scientometric Analysis of Web of Science

Authors

Muhammad Shoaib, Department of Sociology, University of Gujrat (UOG), Gujrat, PakistanFollow
Nusrat Ali, Librarian, Quaid-e-Azam Library University of Gujrat (UOG), Gujrat, PakistanFollow
Abeel Naseer, Lecturer/Demonstrator, Department of Physiology, Nawaz Sharif Medical College University of Gujrat (UOG), Gujrat, PakistanFollow

Date of this Version

6-16-2021

Document Type

Article

Abstract

This study attempted to evaluate the scholarly publications on COVID-19, social distance, physical distance, social isolation, and self-isolation employing the scientometric analysis technique from 2020 to 2021. The main purpose was to consolidate the published scholarship on the COVID-19 in the Web of Science indexed documents. A total of 635 publications were found. The results indicated that social distance and COVID-19 was the top topic along with the article as a type of document, and the majority were published in the English language in 2021. The name of Gimenez-Llort L was at top of the list of authors, along with Univ. British Columbia, Canada organization, United States top country, COVID-19 as to keyword of the published documents and the main source of publication was PLOS One. Further, we had constructed figures and tables to show the trend of data.