key: cord-0107937-zcjtmlf4 authors: Ahmad, Muneer; Batcha, Dr. M Sadik title: Identifying and Mapping the Global Research Output on Coronavirus Disease: A Scientometric Study date: 2021-02-19 journal: nan DOI: nan sha: 65c4d9f258c9527b04c4321fca191917ae75a801 doc_id: 107937 cord_uid: zcjtmlf4 The paper explores and analyses the trend of world literature on"Coronavirus Disease"in terms of the output of research publications as indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) of Web of Science during the period from 2011 to 2020. The study found that 6071 research records have been published on Coronavirus Disease till March 20, 2020. The various scientometric components of the research records published in the study period were studied. The study reveals the various aspects of Coronavirus Disease literature such as year wise distribution, relative growth rate, doubling time of literature, geographical wise, organization wise, language wise, form wise , most prolific authors, and source wise. The highest number of articles was published in the year 2019, while lowest numbers of research article were reported in the year 2020. Further, the relative growth rate is gradually increases and on the other hand doubling time decreases. Most of the research publications are published in English language and most of the publications published in the form of research articles. USA is the highest contributor to the field of Coronavirus Disease literature. Since a cluster of unidentified pneumonia patients was found in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, a new Coronavirus (CoV), which was momentarily named 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by the World Health Organization (WHO) on January 7, 2020, unexpectedly came into our prospect (Huang et al., 2020) . The virus was consequently renamed Severe Acute WHO (World Health Organization, 2004 , 2013 . All 3 of these rising infectious diseases leading to a global spread are caused by βcoronaviruses. Coronavirus. Most people infected with the COVID-19 virus will familiarity mild to moderate respiratory illness and get well without requiring extraordinary treatment. Older people and those with fundamental health problems like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, and cancer are more likely to widen severe illness. At this time, there are no explicit vaccines or treatments for COVID-19. However, there are many constant clinical trials evaluating impending treatments (World Health Organization, 2020). SARS-CoV-2 is intimately associated to two bat-derived severe acute respiratory syndrome-like coronaviruses, bat-SL-CoVZC45 and bat-SL-CoVZXC21. It is spread by human-to-human diffusion via droplets or direct contact, and infection has been projected to have incubation period of 2-14 days, however, a case with and incubation period of 27 days has been reported by Hubei Province local government on 22 February 2020. Mean incubation period observed in travellers from Wuhan 6.4 days (range from 2.1 to 11.1 days). The COVID-19 virus affects different people in different ways. COVID-19 is a respiratory disease and most contaminated people will develop placid to moderate symptoms and pick up without requiring extraordinary treatment. People who have primary remedial circumstances and those over 60 years old have a higher risk of mounting severe disease and death. Common symptoms comprise: fever, tiredness, dry cough. Other symptoms include: shortness of breath, aches and pains, sore throat, and very few people will report diarrhea, nausea or a runny nose. In China, prior outbreaks of emerging infections have had an inauspicious impact on the blood supply (Shan & Zhang, 2004) . However, reflection must also be given to the safety of the transfusion receiver even if the emerging infection is a respiratory disease. Previous studies indicated that viral RNA could be detected from plasma or serum of patients infected with SARS-CoV (Drosten et al., 2003; Grant et al., 2003; Ng et al., 2003) , MERS-CoV (Corman et al., 2015) , or SARS-CoV-2 (Huang et al., 2020) Wuhan (the city where the virus originated) is the largest city in Central China, with a population of over 11 million people. The city, on January 23, shut down transport links. Following Wuhan lock down, the city of Huanggang was also positioned in quarantine, and the city of Ezhou closed its train stations. This means than 18 million people have been placed in isolation. The World Health Organization (WHO) said cutting off a city as large as Wuhan is "unprecedented in public health history" (Reuters, 2020) and praised China for its incredible dedication to segregate the virus and diminish the spread to other countries. The novel coronavirus' case fatality rate has been expected at around 2%, in the WHO press conference held on January 29, 2020 (WorldoMeter, 2020). However, it noted that, without knowing how many were infected, it was too early to be able to put a percentage on the mortality rate figure. A prior approximation (Wang, Horby, Hayden, & Gao, 2020) had put that number at 3%. Fatality rate can change as a virus can transform, according to epidemiologists. For comparison, the case fatality rate for SARS was 10%, and for MERS 34%. The review, in general, provides an overview of the theory and the research literature, with a special emphasis on the literature specific to the topic of investigation. It provides support to the proposition of one's research, with ample evidences drawn from subject experts and authorities in the concerned field. The sources consulted for the review of literature here includes Scientometric studies related materials drawn from Primary periodicals. (Batcha & Ahmad, 2017) The present manuscript aims to study the various dimensions of coronavirus research output in terms of various scientometric indicators, based on publication and citation data, derived from Web of Science database during 2011-2020. In particular, the study analyzed overall annual and cumulative growth of global publications with relative growth rate and doubling time, its share among top 20 most productive countries, publication output distribution by document type and language used for scholarly communication, productivity and citation impact of most productive institutions and authors, and leading media of communication. For the present study, the publication data was retrieved and downloaded from Web of Science It is very clear that the relative growth rate of total literature outputs published has been progressively improved. The growth rate is 0.64 in 2012, which is increased up to 2.76 in 2020. The mean relative growth rate is 1.44 during the period 2011-2020. Generally, the relative growth rate of publications of all sources in this data has shown an increasing trend. The mean doubling time is 0.47 during the period 2011-2020. In general, the doubling time of scholarly publications of all sources in this research output has also shown a decreasing trend. The ranking of authors of various research articles is displayed in The most prolific 20 industrious institutions were analyzed in this part. Institutions that published more than 65 and above publications have been considered as highly productive institutions. 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The data from this paper also suggest that authors Drosten