Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Infectious diseases and clinical microbiology (Online), cilt.3, 2021 (Hakemli Dergi)
Objective: We aimed to evaluate the research and publication trends on the coronavirus
disease (COVID-19) vaccine, and so guide future studies.
Materials and Methods: A bibliometric analysis was performed using a VOSviewer
visualization methodology. Information about publications Web of Science database
outputs, countries, institutions, journals, keywords, and citation counts was retrieved.
Results: A total of 929 eligible publications from January 1, 2020, to February 28, 2021, were
derived from the WOS database according to the search criteria. Publications were written
in nine languages, mainly in English (96.7%). From these results, a total of 300 articles were
reached by filtering. The average number of citations was found to be 7.73. The H-index
of the articles, which were cited 2320 times in total, was 22. Most of the publications were
articles (32.29%) and editorials (28.09%). There were 73 different research areas, mostly in
general internal medicine (26.6%) and immunology (19.05%). The United States of America
produced the majority of articles (31.32%).
Conclusion: This bibliometric analysis presents that publications on the COVID-19 vaccine
are rapidly changing at a time when exactly the effective vaccines of COVID-19 have not
been discovered yet.