Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has sickened more than six million people worldwide. This context has led to an abundance of publications quickly since the beginning of the outbreak. In a few months, thousands of scientific papers have appeared. This article aims to provide a bibliometric analysis of the publications on COVID-19 in five high-impact journals indexed to the Web of Science Core Collection's Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) including The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, Science, Nature, and JAMA-Journal of the American Medical Association. We found 169 documents associated with the search criteria. The findings indicate that China, the United States, and the United Kingdom are the most represented countries in these publications, The Lancet is the journal with the highest number of contributions with 66% of documents, and the University of Hong Kong leads the ranking of institutions. Future bibliometric and scientometric studies on COVID-19 should provide updated information to analyse other relevant indicators in this field.
Highlights
RESUMEN La pandemia COVID-19 causada por el virus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)-CoV-2 ha enfermado a más de seis millones de personas en todo el mundo
Considering the visibility of the articles published in the mentioned journals and the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the present study aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis of the global scientific production related to COVID-19 in five high impact journals
During the first four months of the new coronavirus disease outbreak (COVID-19), 169 documents were published in the target high impact journals chosen
Summary
RESUMEN La pandemia COVID-19 causada por el virus SARS-CoV-2 ha enfermado a más de seis millones de personas en todo el mundo. Coronaviruses are a broad group of zoonotic viruses that cause diverse illnesses, ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases, such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) These syndromes represent a major threat to public health (Abd El-Aziz & Stockand, 2020; Sheahan et al, 2020; Wolfe et al, 2007; Wu et al, 2020), requiring the development of public policies, as well as preventive and control strategies against the outbreak (Yang & Jung, 2020). The novel Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) is a respiratory disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus (Phan, 2020) This new outbreak was first reported in Wuhan in Hubei province (China), in December 2019 (Lu, Stratton, et al, 2020). Antiviral drugs and vaccines are in the early stages of development and may take many months or even years to be fully developed (Geier & Geier, 2020)
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