INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - Vol. 23 Issue 18, Nov 2020
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Date of Publication: 03-Mar-2020
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A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND VISUALISATION OF RESEARCH TRENDS IN COVID-19 AND ANTIVIRAL DRUGS
Author: Vikas Tyagi
Category: Research
Abstract:
COVID19 is a pandemic caused by SARS COV2. Thus this bibliometric analysis of COVID and antiviral drugswas conducted to understand the active authors, organizations, journals, and countries involved . All articles related to precautions against COVID, published in 2020, from “Scopus” were analyzed using the VOS viewer to develop analysis tables and visualization maps. This article had set the objective to consolidate the literature regarding antiviral drugs against COVIDand also to find out the trends related to the same. By analyzing the results from the data by using VOS viewer and discussion in the above section, we conclude that the most active authors are from China. The most productive author isXu J having the highest average citations and Zhou F with the highest number of citations. Li Y is the most active author, having the highest number of co-authorship linkages and several publications in this domain. The most productive research organization engaged in the research of antiviral drugs against COVID is the Institute Of Clinical Medical Sciences, ChinaJapan Friendship Hospital as it has the highest number of citations and highest average citation. The highly active country in the research of antiviral drugs against COVIDis China with the highest number of citations and publications. However, the country with the highest number of average citations and co -authorship linkages is the USA.The Lancet is the most active journal with the co- highest citation, and average citation.
Keywords: COVID, antiviral drugs, Bibliometric analysis, VOS viewer, Pandemic
DOI: 10.36295/ASRO.2020.23208
DOI URL: http://doi.org/10.36295/ASRO.2020.23208
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Introduction
Coronavirus disease19 (COVID19) is a pandemic and caused by SARS COV2.COVID-19 was first reported in Wuhan, China, and its spread across the world. COVID-19 hasa comparatively lower mortality rate but is capable of super spreading and social spreading in a short period. Only Social distancing and self-hygiene can avoid this pandemic at this stage.[1-3]Immunity is very important to control the super spread of the virus. Personal hygiene should include hand washing, us e of masks, sanitizer, gloves, and maintaining social distancing. COVID-19 is disastrous with people having comorbidities. A higher degree of research is needed to control the pandemic. Hygiene is an important social determinant of health during the pandemic. There is a huge challenge faced in solid waste disposal during the pandemic.[4-5] Health workers play a great role in stopping the pandemic. Motivations, overwork, risk of infection, job pressure, lack of rotation are the serious problems faced by health care workers in the field. Till now the treatments involve drug repurposing and we are miles away from an effective vaccine. Antiviral drugs also play an important role in treating COVID patients. Remdesivir, Favipiravir, Chloroquine, and Lopinavir/Ritonavir have commonly used drugs for treating COVID-19 patients across the world. This article is arranged in five sections.[6-9]The first section is the introduction, followed by the discussion of the methodology by which the research was conducted. The third section deals with results and discussion. The fourth section deals with the conclusion
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