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A Detailed Scientometric Review of Coronavirus Research

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A deadly novel coronavirus disease or severe acute respiratory syndrome (COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2) has taken the entire globe in its grip and claimed over more than 0.1 million lives across the globe in barely four months of time. This has attracted researchers, medical practitioners, scientists, biologist’s fraternity, etc. all over the world to join hands in fighting the pandemic. Therefore, a detailed study in the field of coronavirus, especially related to the research status and gaps under a common umbrella, will further help in understanding and improving the current scenario. In the present paper, the scientometric analysis technique was utilized for understanding the recent research activities, scientific trends, and global involvement in the research on coronavirus. Herein, Web of Science database was used for searching the documents. The “articles” in the “English” language were considered in the study. The VoSviewer software was used for carrying out the scientometric analysis. The scanning of the research publication status on a year-on-year basis suggested an increase in the field of research on coronavirus in the recent past. From 2000 till 2020, a total of 9257 number of research articles were published. Among all other countries, USA has the most number of documents published. Analysis of the journals, authors, organizations, funding agencies of the countries and their co-operation network were also analyzed based on citations. Further, co-occurrence analysis of the different keywords suggested that coronavirus related diseases are known to precipitate severe acute respiratory syndrome in the patients. This is also true in the case of COVID-19.

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    A. K. Srivastava, Sarika Verma, Medha Mili & S. A. R. Hashmi

  2. Department of Chemistry, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, 603203, India

    Samarendra Maji

  3. Department of Chemical Engineering, SABIC Polymer Research Center, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Arfat Anis

  4. Department of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, 769008, India

    Kunal Pal

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Srivastava, A.K. et al. (2022). A Detailed Scientometric Review of Coronavirus Research. In: Mohapatra, M., Choudhury, B., Basu, S. (eds) COVID-19 Pandemic. Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4372-9_10

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