An analysis of scientific activities in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic

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dc.contributor.authorBaş, Koray
dc.contributor.authorYılmaz, Fulya
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-21T07:38:14Z
dc.date.available2025-03-21T07:38:14Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.departmentİzmir Bakırçay Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractObjective: COVID-19, a contagious disease which is caused by novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), is still spreading globally. Bibliometric analyses assess the current status and trends in a spesific research domain by using several (Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science) databases. The aim of present study is to evaluate the scientific activities in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientific output.Method: Web of Science software was used for the search and the analysis. All scientific papers published about COVID-19 included in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) from January 1st to December 13th 2020; the date of the study, were searched by using the terms of “COVID-19”, “2019-n-CoV”, “SARS-CoV-2”, “Coronavirus disease 19” and “2019 novel coronavirus” as scientific nomenclatures of COVID-19 in the topic search section of the software.Results:Overall; 47368 scientific papers related to COVID-19, indexed by SCI-E, were found related to COVID-19 between January 1, 2020 to December 13, 2020. The biggest contribution for publications was from United States of America, the most of the publications was articles, the authors that contribute to the literature ≥ 150 papers were all from China and the journal that published the most paper was British Medical Journal.Conclusions: The present analyse reports an overview of the literature on COVID-19 since the beginning. These kind of periodic analysis provides interesting insights regarding the past and progress of each area of scientific knowledge and also can guide the rethinking of scientific data.
dc.description.sponsorshipSivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi
dc.identifier.doi10.7197/cmj.971353
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7197/cmj.971353
dc.identifier.endpage293
dc.identifier.issn1305-0028
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.startpage288
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14034/2731
dc.identifier.volume43
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSivas Cumhuriyet University
dc.relation.ispartofCumhuriyet Tıp Dergisi
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Ulusal Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_DergiPark_20250319
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subject2019-n-CoV
dc.subjectSARS-CoV-2
dc.subjectCoronavirus disease 19
dc.subject2019 novel coronavirus
dc.titleAn analysis of scientific activities in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic
dc.typeArticle

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