Abstract
International Journal of Medicine and Public Health,2021,11,3,139-145.DOI:10.5530/ijmedph.2021.3.25Published:August 2021Type:Original ArticleImpact of COVID-19 on Children and Adults: A Bibliometric Assessment of Global PublicationsBM Gupta, M Surulinathi, Ghouse Modin Nabeesab Mamdapur, Jivesh Bansal, and Madhu Bansal BM Gupta1, M Surulinathi2, Ghouse Modin Nabeesab Mamdapur3,*, Jivesh Bansal4, Madhu Bansal4 1Formerly with CSIR-NISTADS, New Delhi, INDIA. 2Department of Library and Information Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, INDIA. 3Synthite Industries (P) Ltd, Kolenchery, Kerala, INDIA. 4Panjab University, Central Library, Chandigarh, INDIA. Abstract:The paper presents a analysis of quantitative and qualitative dimensions of global research output (3488 records) on “Impact of COVID-19 on Children and Adolescents”, based on indexed publications in Scopus database. The global publications on this theme averaged 8.31 citations per paper. About 1.49% share of its total publications in this area received external funding support. The 145 countries partcipitated in global research output on “Impact of COVID-19 on Children and Adults”, of which the top 10 countries accounted for 85.21% and more than 100% share of global publications and citations. The USA, U.K. and Italy leads in global publications ranking and productivity as against China (3.16), U.K (1.28) and USA (1.27) leading in terms of relative of relative citation index. The 412 organizations and 661 authors participated in global research on this theme, with top 15 most productive organizations and authors contributing 21.07% and 4.30% global publications share and 38.05% and 12.98% global citations share. Harvard Medical School, USA, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China and Tongji Medical College, China leads the world as the most productive organizatons (with 480, 67 and 63 publications) and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (31.97 and 3.85), Tongji Medical College, China (19.92 and 2.40) and Children Hospital of Philadelphia, USA (19.30 and 2.32) leading as the most impactful organizations in the world in terms of citation per paper and relative citation index. D.Buonsensov, C.Calvo and X. Lu were the most productive authors (with 15, 12 and 12 papers) and X.Lu (103.83 and 12.49), A. Licari ( 40.11 and 4.83) and G.L. Marseglia( 34.09 and 4.1) were the most impactful authors. JAMA Pediatrics, Pediatrics Infectious Disease Journal and Acta Paediatrica International Journal of Pediatrics were the most productive journals (with 71, 60 and 58 papers) and Pediatrics (36.59, JAMA Pediatrics (19.49) and Acta Paediatrica International Journal of Pediatrics (14.93) were the most impactful journals. Keywords:Adolescents, Bibliometrics, Children, COVID-19, Global, Impact, publications, scientometricsView:PDF (214.36 KB)
Highlights
Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19), originated at Wuhan city of China in early December 2019 has rapidly widespread with confirmed cases in almost every country across the world and has become a new global public health crisis
The 145 countries partcipitated in global research output on “Impact of COVID-19 on Children and Adults”, of which the top 10 countries accounted for 85.21% and more than 100% share of global publications and citations
Gupta amd Mamdapur[12] carried out another bibliometric study on the “Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health of Children and Adolescents, which studied 1787 global papers indexed in Scopus database duting 2020-21
Summary
Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19), originated at Wuhan city of China in early December 2019 has rapidly widespread with confirmed cases in almost every country across the world and has become a new global public health crisis. The major clinical symptoms of the disease are fever, non-productive cough, fatigue, malaise and breathlessness Severe illness such as pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and death occurs in the elderly and patients with comorbid conditions.[1] Globally, as 15 May 2021, there have been 161,513,458 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 3,352,109 deaths, reported to WHO from 213 countries and territories.[2]. Of all COVID-19 cases reported worldwide last year, children under 18 years accounted for about 8%, despite comprising 29% of the global population, according to the World Health Organization.[3] Children of all ages can get COVID-19 Children, those younger than 12 to 14 years of age, appear to be affected less commonly than adults, children typically have a lower risk of exposure than adults and are tested less frequently than adults. Bibliometrics is recognized as an essential tool and is widely used in a variety of fields to measure and evaluate scientific research quantitatively and qualitatively.[10]
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