COVID-19 Pandemic: reflection on literature

Abstract

The ongoing threat to the mankind is COVID-19 has shaken the whole world and till date there is no solution for the same. COVID-19 is a new form of coronavirus. There is need of research on COVID-19 to find the antidote/vaccine. As per WHO (4 April 2020)1,056,159 Confirmed cases and 57,206deaths from 208 countries have been reported. Thus, to analze the research trend on COVID-19, the bibliometric analysis has been done on COVID-19 literature extracted from the web of science database for the period of 1st Jan to 31st March 2020. The analysis showed that there are 489 documents and top most sources publishing on COVID are BMJ and Lancent. The top two authors of the field are Mahase E and Drosten C. The most cited paper is Huang Cl, 2020 DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30183-5.The maximum contribution is from China and the top most organization is University of Hong Kong, Homg Kong.