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Title: Impact of coronavirus outbreaks on science and society: Insights from temporal bibliometry of SARS and COVID-19
Authors: Gupta, Ramya
Prasad, Abhishek
Babu, Suresh
Yadav, Gitanjali
Keywords: bibliometry
coronavirus
text and data mining
SARS
MERS
COVID-19
covid19
Issue Date: 2021
Publisher: MDPI AG
Citation: Entropy, 23(5): 626
Abstract: A global event such as the COVID-19 crisis presents new, often unexpected responses that are fascinating to investigate from both scientific and social standpoints. Despite several documented similarities, the coronavirus pandemic is clearly distinct from the 1918 flu pandemic in terms of our exponentially increased, almost instantaneous ability to access/share information, offering an unprecedented opportunity to visualise rippling effects of global events across space and time. Personal devices provide “big data” on people’s movement, the environment and economic trends, while access to the unprecedented flurry in scientific publications and media posts provides a measure of the response of the educated world to the crisis. Most bibliometric (co-authorship, co-citation, or bibliographic coupling) analyses ignore the time dimension, but COVID-19 has made it possible to perform a detailed temporal investigation into the pandemic. Here, we report a comprehensive network analysis based on more than 20,000 published documents on viral epidemics, authored by over 75,000 individuals from 140 nations in the past one year of the crisis. Unlike the 1918 flu pandemic, access to published data over the past two decades enabled a comparison of publishing trends between the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and those of the 2003 SARS epidemic to study changes in thematic foci and societal pressures dictating research over the course of a crisis.
Description: Accepted date: 14 May 2021
URI: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/5/626
http://223.31.159.10:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/1200
ISSN: 1099-4300
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