Early research on COVID-19: A bibliometric analysis

Temporal distribution of COVID-19-related early publications in 2020

In December 2019, an outbreak of pneumonia, which was named COVID-2019, emerged as a global health crisis. Scientists worldwide are engaged in attempts to elucidate the transmission and pathogenic mechanisms of the causative coronavirus. COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020, making it critical to track and review the state of research on COVID-19 to provide guidance for further investigations. Here, bibliometric and knowledge mapping analyses of studies on COVID-19 were performed, including more than 1500 papers on COVID-19 available in the PubMed and CNKI databases from January 1, 2020 to March 8, 2020.

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Gong, Y., Ma, T.-c., Xu, Y.-y., Yang, R., Gao, L.-j., Wu, S.-h., Li, J., Yue, M.-l., Liang, H.-g., He, X. and Yun, T. Early Research on COVID-19: A Bibliometric Analysis. The Innovation 1 (2), 100027 (2020). doi: 10.1016/j.xinn.2020.100027