Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic aroused global public concern and became a major medical issue. This study aims to investigate the global research routine and trends of coronavirus over the last twenty years based on the production, hotspots, and frontiers of published articles as well as to provide the global health system with a bibliometric reference. The Web of Science core collection database was retrieved for coronavirus articles published from 1 January 2000 to 17 March 2020. Duplicates and discrete papers were excluded. Analysis parameters including time, regions, impact factors, and citation times were processed through professional software. A total of 9043 coronavirus articles originated from 123 countries and were published in 1202 journals. The USA contributed most articles (3101) followed by China (2230). The research was published in specialized journals including the Journal of Virology. Universities were the main institutions of science progress. High-impact articles covered fields of basic science and clinical medicine. There were two sharp increases in research yields after the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) outbreaks. International collaborations promoted study progress, and universities and academies act as the main force in coronavirus research. More research on prevention and treatment is needed according to an analysis of term density.
Highlights
A novel virus named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019, causing a large global outbreak: the coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) pandemic [1,2,3]
SARS-CoV-2 infection was first reported in December 2019, and the infection spread and situation worsened and became a Public Health Emergency of International Concern soon thereafter [34]
Our analysis showed that coronavirus research articles were from multiple countries, from which numerous scientists have participated in the defense against coronavirus
Summary
A novel virus named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019, causing a large global outbreak: the coronavirus disease 2019. (COVID-19) pandemic [1,2,3] It has aroused international public concern and has become a major medical issue [4,5]. Within the past two decades, coronavirus infection has broken out recurrently and triggered three widespread epidemics: The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) occurred in China in 2002 [6], the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) emerged in Saudi Arabia in 2012 [7], and COVID-19. In order to assess the impact of coronavirus research on global scientific research production and contribute to the prevention and control of
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