The Rapid Escalation of Publications on Covid-19: a Snapshot of Trends in the Early Months to Overcome the Pandemic and to Improve Life Quality
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: With it's rapid contagion, the new coronavirus is spreading more and more around the world.Studies point out that the difficulty in solving this pandemic lies in the lack of identification of those infected for their symptoms, which sometimes do not exist.The objectives of this work are to carry out a bibliometric study, identifying the main countries, authors, journals, institutions and keywords that make up this field of knowledge; analyze the research opportunities in the main articles to identify the main study trends about Covid-19; and check if there is a correlation between the number of publications and the number of infected by Covid-19.Among the main groups identified in the studies, the following stand out: regulation of the wildlife market, detection, prevention, impacts on patients, proposal of vaccines, treatment and Covid-19 cure.One of the main contributions of this study was the transmission of relevant knowledge about Covid-19 with the intention to improve quality of life.
Authors: José Salvador da Motta Reis, Fernanda De Oliveira Silva, Maximilian Espuny, Larah Giffoni Lescura Alexandre, LuÃs César Ana Cláudia Munhoz Bonassa, Amanda Marcondes Faria, Nilo Antonio de Souza Sampaio, Gilberto Santos, Otávio José de Oliveira
Institutions: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Universidade Federal do ABC, Centro Paula Souza, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Federal Center for Technological Education Celso Suckow da Fonseca, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Politécnica do Cávado e do Ave
Language: English
Subfield: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Awards: G2074684148, G29316538, G6825622554
OpenAlex ID: W3080818692