Bibliometric indicators of articles on "COVID-19"in the Scopus base

• Autor(a) principal: Gicovate, Ana Gabriela Poppe
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Marins, Arthur Leal Prestes, Neto, Carlos Gicovate, Shimoda, Eduardo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Científica da Faculdade de Medicina de Campos
• Texto Completo: https://www.fmc.br/ojs/index.php/RCFMC/article/view/383
• topic: COVID-19; SARS-COV-2; CORONAVÍRUS; BIBLIOMETRIA; ANÁLISE BIBLIOMÉTRICA; COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, coronavirus, bibliometrics, bibliometric analysis.

The COVID-19 is a newly discovered viral disease, caused by SARS-CoV-2, which has become a pandemic with 25 million people infected and 848 thousand deaths. This work aims to evaluate the scientific production on this theme by collecting data through the Scopus database from all articles published in journals that present the term “COVID-19” in the title, abstract or keywords. The results obtained were: countries with the most publications on COVID-19: United States, China and Italy. Brazil ranked 11th. Institutions with the most publications: HUST, Tongji Medical College and Harvard Medical School, in Brazil: USP (São Paulo), FIOCRUZ and UFMG. The authors with the most publications in the world are Mahase, E., Iaccobucci, G. and Rimmer, A. In Brazil, Angeletti, S., Benvenuto, D., Ciccozzi, M. and Giovanetti, M. The journals that most published on the theme: British Medical Journal, Clinical Research, International Journal of Environmental Research And Public Health and Journal Of Medical Virology. In Brazil: Cadernos De Saúde Pública, Clinics São Paulo BrazilandCiência E Saúde Coletiva. Main linking areas of the articles: Medicine, Social Sciences and Biochemistry and Genetics. Publication languages: English, Chinese and Spanish. In Brazil, Portuguese was the second most used language. It was concluded that the countries with greater economic power presented more publications on all topics and on COVID-19, however, in this case with greater participation of those that were most impacted by the disease, such as Brazil and Italy, which rise in the ranking of countries that most published about the disease.