Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: Continuing to threaten human lives, COVID-19 has not only affected public health, but the social, economic and political repercussions of the health crisis deeply influenced all areas of individual and social life.Hence, academic interest in COVID-19 rapidly increased, triggering a wave of scientific research of significant dimensions within a short time.Significant number of studies published led to the exponential growth of the literature on COVID-19.In this regard, the present study aimed to present an overview of global COVID-19 research in sociology.In the study, bibliometric analysis method was employed to determine the social, intellectual and conceptual structure of the sociology literature related to COVID-19.Citation, co-citation, bibliographic coupling, co-author and coword analyzes were applied to the data set containing 890 articles obtained from the Web of Science database.A graphical depiction of the field of research was presented through the network maps obtained as a result of these analyzes using the VOSviewer software, so that the patterns in the field of research were determined with a macro-level approach.According to the results of the study, the dominant language in the field of research is English.Approximately 70% of the articles in the dataset are the joint product of two or more authors.The most influential writer in the related field is Haiyan Song, the most influential journal is European Societies, and the most influential country is the USA.Co-citation analysis has shown that theorists such as Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, Erwing Goffman, Jürgen Habermas, Pierre Bourdieu, and Zygmun Bauman form the intellectual foundation of the research field.According to the bibliographic coupling analysis, the journal with the highest total link strength is European Societies.The co-author analysis revealed that the UK is the country that cooperates most with other countries.The co-word analysis revealed that "inequality" is the most frequently used word after "COVID-19", has the highest number of links and total link strength in the relevant research field.Other major themes that determine the conceptual structure of the field of research are "crisis", "gender", "poverty", "nationalism", "employment", "discrimination", "media", "public health", "globalisation", "distance education", "media" and "lockdown".It is expected that the study will reveal the gaps in the literature by structuring and mapping the current knowledge and create an agenda and a roadmap for future research.
DOI: 10.29228/jasss.65031
Author: Mahmut GÜRSOY
Institutions: Adıyaman University, Creative Commons
Language: English
Subfield: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4313819595