Six clusters of Pandemic Covid-19 articles in Scopus from 2020 to 2022 using social network analysis

Abstract

The aim of this study was to analyse the bibliographic characteristics and content of articles on Pandemic Covid-19 published in journals indexed by Scopus written by researchers from throughout the world. We conducted a bibliometric and content analysis of publication in the Scopus database. We only retrieved articles written in English. We conducted content analysis using the VOSviewer software and visualized the co-occurrence of keywords and bibliographic coupling of sources and countries. Following the study protocol, we found 1864 articles on Pandemic Covid-19 over the past 3 years. The most productive journal that published these articles was Frontiers In Psychology (n=47). The post productive country were United States (n=260). Based on cititations, the most influential authors, and journals were Nicola et al., (2020)(n=2753), and International Journal of Surgery (n=2770). The keywords of research on Pandemic Covid-19 formed 6 clusters (e.g Covid19, Human, and Pandemic). From a global perspective, Pandemic Covid-19 research in the past 3 years has increased significantly. There were European published journals ominated publications. Thus, Asian country need to conduct more active research on this topic.