Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Objective: This study aims to conduct the statistical analysis of the scientific outputs about COVID-19 in the field of Pediatrics, identify the top effective studies, and reveal the trend topics. Material and Methods: Statistical analysis was performed for all the publications published between 2019 and 2020 in the “Pediatrics” research area in the Web of Science database and included the “COVID-19”, “SARS-CoV-2”, “2019-nCoV”, “n- CoV”, and “coronavirus” keywords in their title. Results: The literature review indicated 15140 publications, 397 (2.62%) of which were in the “Pediatrics” research area. The top 3 journals that had the highest number of publications were Pediatric Blood & Cancer, Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, Pediatric Pulmonology. The top-cited 3 articles were published in the journals of Translational Pediatrics, Pediatric Pulmonology, Acta Paediatrica. According to the trend analysis results, the trend topics included the keywords such as pregnancy, neonate(s), newborn(s), adolescents, breastfeeding, treatment, epidemiology, pneumonia, vertical transmission, asthma, breast milk, clinical characteristics, computed tomography, diagnosis, human milk, infant, myocarditis, survey, and symptoms. Conclusion: The pandemic affecting the whole world has also changed the course of academic publications. This bibliometric study provided a summary of the publications about COVID-19 in the field of Pediatrics.
Authors: Gül Doğan, Güvenç Doğan
Language: Turkish
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3083166375