The 100 Most-Cited Articles in COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Based on Web of Science: A Bibliometric Analysis

• Published in: Infection and drug resistance Vol. 16; pp. 2625 - 2646
• Main Authors: Liu, Bo, You, Junjie, Huang, Lingyi, Chen, Mengling, Shen, Yushan, Xiong, Longyu, Zheng, Silin, Huang, Min
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New Zealand Dove Medical Press Limited 01.01.2023; Dove; Dove Medical Press
• Subjects: Analysis; bibliometric analysis; citation; covid-19; Epidemiology; Pharmaceutical industry; Rankings; Review; Vaccination; vaccine hesitancy; Vaccines; United States; United Kingdom; China; COVID-19; vaccine hesitancy; citation; bibliometric analysis
• ISSN: 1178-6973; 1178-6973
• DOI: 10.2147/IDR.S408377

To perform a bibliometric analysis of the 100 most-cited articles (T100 articles) on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy to characterize current trends. The data of the bibliometric analysis were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) database on January 29, 2023, and the results were sorted in descending order by citations. Two researchers independently extracted the characteristics of the top 100 cited articles, including title, author, citations, publication year, institution, country, author keywords, Journal Cited Rank, and impact factor. Excel and VOSviewer were used to analyze the data. The T100 articles ranged from 79 to 1125 citations, with a mean of 208.75. The T100 articles were contributed by 29 countries worldwide, of which the USA ranked first with 28 articles and 5417 citations. The T100 articles were published in 61 journals; the top three citations were , and , and the number of citations was 2690, 1712, and 1644, respectively. Professor Sallam, M(n=4) from Jordan, is the author who participated in the most published articles. Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (n=8) had the most T100 articles. It is the first bibliometric analysis of the T100 articles in the field of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. We carefully analyzed and described the characteristics of these T100 articles, which provide ideas for further strengthening COVID-19 vaccination and fighting against the epidemic in the future.