COVID-19: A Bibliometric Analysis and Insights

Abstract

The current outbreak of the coronavirus disease has left the whole world traumatised. The illness triggered by the novel coronavirus is named as COVID-19. It is pre-fixed with the word “novel” because it comes under the new strain of the virus that has not been reported before. This virus outbreak has disrupted human life in the most petrifying way worldwide. The present study aims to analyse the work done in this field through a state-of-the-art review of articles based on COVID-19 and discuss the current trends in the epidemiology of this disease entity with special reference to India and the effects of this pandemic on the environment. The time frame selected for review is the beginning of this pandemic to April 10th, 2020. Scopus® database is used to carry out the analysis. Moreover, the most contributed authors, institutions, countries, etc. are showed through the analysis. The purpose of this review is to get an idea about the direction of the flow of current research, the association of various authors with each other, the role of collaboration between several institutions and the position of India in current explosive ongoing research.