Mapping the Research on Coronavirus: A Scientometric Study.

The paper analyzes the mapping of research trends and author productivity of global literature on coronavirus output of research publications as indexed in the Web of Science from 1996 to 2020. A total of 12,706 publications were published on Coronavirus during 1996–2020. The highest number of publications, 783 or 6.162% was published in 2004. A total of 33,814 authors contributed to the 12,706 publications (i.e. the total publications shared by 37.57% of the authors). The most prolific authors were Yuen KY with 213 publications; Perlman with 179; Enjuanes with 160; and Baric with 59 publications. The data of one person to 25 people and the study witnessed accordingly measured the value of n = 334.6630. The University of Hong Kong was the most productive institution; it contributed 519 (4.085%) of the publications. The United States of America (USA) holds the highest share of 4,541 (35.73%) of publications followed by the Peoples Republic of China with 21.23%. The research area of virology produced the major share with 3,998 (31.46%) publications globally followed by Veterinary sciences with 1,908 (15.01%). The most productive journal was the Journal of Virology with 1,130 (8.89%); Virology published 480 (3.77%) from the top 25 ranked journals. The visualizing for mapping of coronavirus publications of Web of Science data recorded authors, institutions, and countries in this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]