How the scientific community responded to the COVID-19 pandemic: A subject-level time-trend bibliometric analysis

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 16; no. 9; p. e0258064
• Main Authors: Malekpour, Mohammad-Reza, Abbasi-Kangevari, Mohsen, Azadnajafabad, Sina, Ghamari, Seyyed-Hadi, Rezaei, Negar, Rezazadeh-Khadem, Sahba, Rezaei, Nazila, Aminorroaya, Arya, Abdolhamidi, Elham, Mohammadi Fateh, Sahar, Haghshenas, Rosa, Roshani, Shahin, Ahmadi, Naser, Jamshidi, Kosar, Naderimagham, Shohreh, Farzadfar, Farshad
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco Public Library of Science 30.09.2021; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Application programming interface; Bibliographies; Bibliometrics; Collaboration; Community; Cooperation; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Digital Object Identifier; Documents; Domains; Endocrinology; Evaluation; Health aspects; Health sciences; Infectious diseases; International cooperation; Low income areas; Medical research; Medicine and Health Sciences; Metabolism; Middle East respiratory syndrome; Pandemics; Physical sciences; Population; Public health; Public health administration; R&D; Redundancy; Research & development; Research and Analysis Methods; Respiratory diseases; Science Policy; Social aspects; Social sciences; Trends; Iran

COVID-19 has triggered an avalanche of research publications, the various aspects of which need to be assessed. The objective of this study is to determine the scientific community's response patterns to COVID-19 through a bibliometric analysis of the time-trends, global contribution, internati...