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Publications on COVID-19 in High ImpactFactor Journals A Bibliometric Analysis

Publicaciones sobre COVID-19 en revistas cientiacuteficas con alto factorde impacto Un anaacutelisis bibliomeacutetrico

Received 04 June 2020 | Accepted 16 July 2020

Wilson Loacutepez-LoacutepezPontificia Universidad Javeriana Colombia

ORCID httpsorcidorg0000-0002-2964-0402

Gonzalo SalasUniversidad Catoacutelica del Maule Chile


Maribel Vega-ArceUniversidad Catoacutelica del Maule Chile


Claudia A Cornejo-ArayaUniversidad Catoacutelica del Maule Chile


Miguel Barboza-PalominoUniversidad Privada del Norte Peruacute


Yu-Shan HoAsia University Taiwaacuten


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ABSTRACTThe COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has sickenedmore than six million people worldwide This context has led to anabundance of publications quickly since the beginning of the outbreakIn a few months thousands of scientific papers have appeared Thisarticle aims to provide a bibliometric analysis of the publications onCOVID-19 in five high-impact journals indexed to the Web of ScienceCore Collections Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)including The Lancet New England Journal of Medicine Science Natureand JAMA-Journal of the American Medical Association We found 169documents associated with the search criteria The findings indicatethat China the United States and the United Kingdom are the mostrepresented countries in these publications The Lancet is the journalwith the highest number of contributions with 66 of documents andthe University of Hong Kong leads the ranking of institutions Futurebibliometric and scientometric studies on COVID-19 should provideupdated information to analyse other relevant indicators in this fieldKeywordsCOVID-19 bibliometrics Web of Science journals impact factor

RESUMENLa pandemia COVID-19 causada por el virus SARS-CoV-2 ha enfermadoa maacutes de seis millones de personas en todo el mundo Este contexto

Wilson Loacutepez-Loacutepez Gonzalo Salas Maribel Vega-Arce et al

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ha propiciado una abundancia de publicacionesraacutepidamente desde el inicio del brote En pocos meseshan aparecido miles de documentos de caraacutecter cientiacuteficoEl presente artiacuteculo tiene por objeto realizar un anaacutelisisbibliomeacutetrico de las publicaciones sobre COVID-19 encinco revistas cientiacuteficas de alto impacto indexados alScience Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) deWeb of Science Core Collection entre los cuales seencuentran The Lancet New England Journal of MedicineScience Nature y JAMA-Journal of the American MedicalAssociation Se encontraron 169 documentos asociadosa los criterios de buacutesqueda Los hallazgos indican queChina Estados Unidos y Reino Unido son los paiacuteses maacutesrepresentados en estas publicaciones The Lancet es larevista que presenta la mayor cantidad de contribucionescon un 66 de documentos y la University of HongKong lidera el ranking de instituciones Futuros estudiosbibliomeacutetricos y cienciomeacutetricos sobre COVID-19 debenbrindar informacioacuten actualizada que permita analizar otrosindicadores relevantes para este campoPalabras claveCOVID-19 bibliometriacutea Web of Science revistas cientiacuteficas factorde impacto

Coronaviruses are a broad group of zoonoticviruses that cause diverse illnesses ranging fromthe common cold to more severe diseases such asSevere Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) andthe Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)These syndromes represent a major threat topublic health (Abd El-Aziz amp Stockand 2020Sheahan et al 2020 Wolfe et al 2007 Wuet al 2020) requiring the development ofpublic policies as well as preventive and controlstrategies against the outbreak (Yang amp Jung2020)

The novel Coronavirus Disease-19(COVID-19) is a respiratory disease causedby the SARS-CoV-2 virus (Phan 2020) Thisnew outbreak was first reported in Wuhan inHubei province (China) in December 2019 (LuStratton et al 2020) Most of the initial caseshad visited the Huanan South seafood marketin Wuhan where varieties of live exotic animalswere also sold (Jalava 2020 Lu Zhao et al2020 Zhu et al 2020) Since the SARS outbreak18 years ago many SARS-related coronaviruses(SARS-CoV) have been discovered with batsbeing their natural host (Li et al 2005 Zhou etal 2020)

At the genetic level COVID-19 is closelyrelated to SARS and a lesser extent to MERSwhich have emerged as epidemiological threatsin recent years in China and the Middle East(Kotfis amp Skonieczna-Żydecka in press) Peoplewith COVID-19 may be asymptomatic developmild symptoms such as dry cough sore throatand fever or develop bilateral pneumonia orlow oxygen saturation which may end in acuterespiratory distress syndrome and death (Sohrabiet al 2020) Unfortunately to date there isno known effective proven and recognizedpharmacological treatment for SARS-Cov-2(Cortegiani et al 2020) Current therapeuticinterventions are used to control associatedconditions (thrombosis inflammation bacterialsuperinfections) or consequences of the courseof the disease (oxygen therapy and respiratorysupport) to reduce fatality rates Antiviraldrugs and vaccines are in the early stages ofdevelopment and may take many months or evenyears to be fully developed (Geier amp Geier 2020)

COVID-19 has spread worldwide which iswhy the World Health Organization (WHO)declared it a pandemic (Liu et al 2020 Mahase2020) Millions of people are infected andhundreds of thousands have died (Tufan ampKayaaslan 2020) The number of new cases isincreasing daily and this is monitored in realtime by the Coronavirus Resource Center of theJohns Hopkins University and other repositories(Velavan amp Meyer 2020) As of June 32020 6418078 confirmed cases and 381064deaths due to this disease had been reportedworldwide [1] The rapid increase in confirmedcases and deaths has generated concernrepresenting a serious threat to global publichealth (Wang Wang et al 2020) Thereforeactions for management prevention and controlof COVID-19 are extremely important for publichealth (Zheng et al 2020) and these dependprimarily on a countryrsquos health systemrsquos capacity(Gilbert 2020) This also requires rigorous andcontinuous monitoring of the scientific evidenceon COVID-19 to accurately identify and predictthe adaptation evolution transmission andpathogenicity of the disease Additionally it iscritical to monitor the best tools for diagnosis and

Publications on COVID-19 in High Impact Factor Journals A Bibliometric Analysis

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clinical management which are being updatedas new results are published including andexcluding drugs for the management of patients(Sohrabi et al 2020)

Governments of several countries havedecreed mandatory physical isolation to reducethe transmission of the virus These restrictionshave resulted in lifestyle changes closureof businesses providing non-essential servicesloss of jobs and impact on peoplersquos mentalhealth (Saadat Rawtani amp Hussain 2020Yang et al 2020 Zhai amp Du 2020) Thuspreliminary evidence in mental health suggeststhat symptoms of anxiety and depression(16-28) and self-reported stress (8) arecommon psychological reactions in this contextand may be associated with sleep disorders(Rajkumar 2020) Furthermore while there areindividual differences in the expression of fearand anxiety these emotional responses mayvary from optimal responses proportionate tothe threat to prolonged and disproportionateemotional states (Quezada-Scholz 2020)

As mentioned the COVID-19 pandemic hasnot only affected peoplersquos health but has alsobrought with it social economic and politicalrepercussions that must be addressed (Duanamp Zhu 2020) Today unlike other pandemicssuch as the so-called Spanish flu in 1918(Martini et al 2019 Saunders-Hastings ampKrewski 2016) there is greater progress inmedicine epidemiology and different scientificdisciplines which allows evidence to be availablefor decision-making processes in a shorter time(Jester et al 2020 Monto amp Fukuda 2020)Accordingly recommendations for people haveemerged intending to increase hygiene and theuse of facemasks to prevent contagion and spreadof the virus (Feng et al 2020 Hillier 2020)

Everything that is known regardingCOVID-19 has been established in a short timeand scientists are joining forces to find a solutionand to mitigate this health problem (Ciotti etal in press) Every discovery can be known inreal time thanks to globalization and informationtechnologies which have also transformed theway science communicates (Garciacutea amp Saacutenchez2019)

Scientific journals have developed a series ofindicators that measure their research activitiesin relation to other journals Among these factorsis the Impact Factor (IF) which compares andevaluates the importance of one journal byconsidering the mean number of citations itsarticles receive in a period (Okagbue et al 2019)In this regard results of research conducted onCOVID-19 are published in different scientificjournals which have implemented acceleratedpublication mechanisms to allow the rapidavailability of scientific evidence for decisionmaking

In this context bibliometric studies constitutea fundamental source in the evaluation processof scientific publications Additionally thiskind of study provides relevant information toresearchers about a specific field of knowledgeRegarding the COVID-19 pandemic differentbibliometric studies have been conducted inareas related to the state of the art in scientificresearch (Mohadab et al 2020) indicatorsabout the most cited countries institutionsand articles (De Felice Polimeni amp Valentini2020 OrsquoBrien et al 2020) keyword co-occurrence networks in the research by subjectarea (Aristovnik et al 2020) publication typeand research focus (Lou et al 2020) the growthrate of research on the topic (Torres-Salinas2020) and literature analysis in the businessand management domain aiming to identifycurrent and future areas of research (Vermaamp Gustafsson 2020) Nevertheless this typeof research is still scarce and aspects such asthe scientific production of journals with thehighest IF (which provides greater visibility totheir articles) has not been investigated (Chiu etal 2004)

In 2018 the top three out of 160 journalsindexed in the Web of Science (WoS) category ofgeneral and internal medicine were New EnglandJournal of Medicine (IF2018 = 70670) The Lancet(IF2018 = 59102) and JAMA-Journal of theAmerican Medical Association (IF2018 = 51273)In the multidisciplinary science category outof 69 journals Nature (IF2018 = 43070) andScience (IF2018 = 41063) were located in first



and second place respectively These journalsalso obtained a high ranking out of 9172 journalsindexed in SCI-EXPANDED in 2018 rankingas follow New England Journal of Medicine (3rd)The Lancet (4th) JAMA-Journal of the AmericanMedical Association (9th) Nature (13th) andScience (14th) Moreover these journals havealso been highlighted for publishing top-citeddocuments as articles (Ho 2013) and reviews(Ho amp Kahn 2014) which have had over 1000citations

Considering the visibility of the articlespublished in the mentioned journals and thecontext of the COVID-19 pandemic the presentstudy aims to conduct a bibliometric analysisof the global scientific production related toCOVID-19 in five high impact journals

Method

This studyrsquos data were retrieved from theClarivate Analytics Web of Science CoreCollection the online version of the ScienceCitation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)This catalog indexes the 9394 most influentialjournals in 2020 (Clarivate Analytics 2020)SCI-EXPANDED is also highly used in thebibliometric analysis of various knowledgedomains (Fu et al 2012 Han amp Ho 2011) andclassic papers (Baltussen amp Kindler 2004)

The database was searched under analogkeywords (ldquoCOVID-19rdquo ldquoCOVID-2019rdquoldquo2019-nCoVrdquo ldquo2019 novel coronavirusrdquoldquoCOVID19rdquo ldquoCOVID2019rdquo ldquoCOVD-19rdquoldquocorona virus disease 2019rdquo ldquocoronavirusdisease 2019rdquo ldquo2019 novel coronavirusdiseaserdquo ldquonovel coronavirus disease-19rdquo ldquosevereacute respiratory syndrome coronavirusrdquoldquonovel coronavirus 2019rdquo ldquonovel coronavirusinfectionrdquo ldquoacute coronary syndromesrdquo andldquoCoV-2rdquo) Other terms that did not apply tothe subject studied as ldquoCordyline virusrdquo ldquobreastcancer patients (COV)rdquo and ldquoMERS-CoV 2rdquowere excluded

The extraction was carried out in termsof the topic (title abstract author keywordsand KeyWords Plus) within the publication

year with a limit of 2019 to 2020 (untilApril 30th 2020) KeyWords Plus suppliedadditional search terms extracted from thetitles of articles cited by authors in theirbibliographies and footnotes in the WoS databaseand substantially augmented title-word andauthor-keyword indexing (Garfield 1990) Thefinal filter was the lsquofront pagersquo in which onlythe papers having the searched keywords in theirlsquofirst pagersquo (including article title abstract andauthor keywords) were retained (Fu et al 2012)The impact factor of a journal was based onthe 2018 Journal Citation Report Affiliations inEngland Scotland Northern Ireland and Waleswere grouped as being from the United Kingdom(UK) (Chiu amp Ho 2007)

Results

Document Type and Journal

During the first four months of the newcoronavirus disease outbreak (COVID-19) 169documents were published in the target highimpact journals chosen Most of them are fromThe Lancet (111 documents 66 of the total)followed by New England Journal of Medicine(21) Science (19) Nature (15) and JAMA-Journal of the American Medical Association (3)The majority of these publications correspond toeditorial material (71) and letters (59) and TheLancet was the journal that published the highestnumber of articles (12) editorial material (51)and letters (41) Table 1 shows the distribution bydocument type in the analyzed journals

Only three papers including one article(Wang Hu et al 2020) one letter (Chang etal 2020) and one editorial material (del Rio ampMalani 2020) were published in JAMA-Journalof the American Medical Association



Table 1Distribution of document types

Note TP number of total publicationsAPP number of authors per

publications NA not available

Countries

Among the 169 documents published in the highimpact factor journals 119 of them (70 ofthe total) had author affiliation information inthe SCI-EXPANDED and their authorsrsquo countryand institution were analyzed The documentsrsquoauthors represent 43 countries The top threeproductive countries were China (42 documents35 of the 119 publications) the USA (41documents 34) and the UK (38 documents32) Table 2 displays the top ten countries

Table 2Top ten productive countries with TP ge 5

Note TP total number ofpublications NA not available

Institutions

The top ten most productive institutions arelisted in Table 3 Nine out of the ten maininstitutions are located in China the USA andthe UK In addition the 10th most productiveinstitution is located in Switzerland WuhanUniversity in China was the only one whichhas published documents in The Lancet (4documents) New England Journal of Medicine (1)

Science (1) and JAMA-Journal of the AmericanMedical Association (1) In contrast UniversityCollege London in the UK has only publisheddocuments in Nature (9) None of the top teninstitutions had published documents in JAMA-Journal of the American Medical Association Boththe Chinese Academy of Sciences and FudanUniversity had two papers in Nature as the firstauthor Food and Agriculture Organization of theUnited Nations in Italy New York Universityin the USA Uppsala University in SwedenCayetano Heredia University in Peru and SanRaffaele Scientific Institute in Italy also publishedtwo papers in Nature with one first authorrespectively

Table 3Top ten productive institutions with TP ge 6

Note TP total number of publicationsR rank NA not available

Authors

From the 169 documents 854 authors wereidentified Table 4 shows the top ten mostproductive authors None of the top ten authorshad published documents in JAMA-Journal ofthe American Medical Association The editor-in-chief of The Lancet Richard Horton haspublished seven editorial materials in The LancetKai Kupferschmidt a contributing correspondentfor Science has published five news items inScience including three first-author and onesingle-author news item Jon Cohen a staff writerfor Science has also published five news items inScience including three first-author two single-author and three collaborative news items withKupferschmidt



Table 4Top ten productive authors with TP ge 4


Discussion

The impact of COVID-19 on society has led tothe development of research in different fields(Ciotti et al in press) therefore to an increaseof scientific publications on the subject Thisstudy aimed to conduct a bibliometric analysis ofthe worldrsquos scientific publications on COVID-19in five high impact journals New EnglandJournal of Medicine The Lancet JAMA-Journalof the American Medical Association Nature andScience The main results indicate that most ofthe documents were published in The Lancetand the most productive institutions were fromChina the USA and the UK

The journals analyzed in this study wereselected due to their top ranking in ScienceCitation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)In this regard one of the leading indicatorsconsidered for their evaluation was the journalimpact factor (IF) (Okagbue et al 2019) It isstated that the documents published in thesejournals have greater visibility and probability ofbeing cited in the development of other studieson the subject (Liu et al 2018 Liu et al2016) Furthermore considering what has beenreported in previous studies (Ho 2013 Ho ampKahn 2014) it is likely that documents publishedon COVID-19 in these journals will receive asignificant number of citations becoming classicarticles (Garfield 1977 Martiacutenez et al 2014)which will represent intellectual markers inthe field of research of COVID-19 (Gutieacuterrez-Salcedo et al 2018)

In the WoS category of general and internalmedicine New England Journal of MedicineThe Lancet and JAMA-Journal of the AmericanMedical Association rank in the top three in 2018This order is not reflected in the number ofpublications reported on the topic during thestudied period where The Lancet stands outby publishing 66 of the studied documentsDespite being a medical journal JAMA-Journalof the American Medical Association is exceededin the number of publications by Science andNature This could be explained by the factthat the responses to COVID-19 involve aninterdisciplinary approach making journals fromdifferent disciplines attractive to the socializationof research results However this number ofpublications will not necessarily determine theIF of the journal This is an indicator that isestablished over time and can be analyzed in afuture study

As mentioned previously China the USAand the UK were identified as the mostproductive countries In that sense it isimportant to point out that in the first SARSoutbreak in 2003 the USA and the UK werethe countries that stood out with the highestnumber of publications (Chiu et al 2004)Today in the context of COVID-19 it is observedthat China leads this list coinciding with thevirusrsquos initial discovery and the response of itsscientific community In this regard 9 of the10 affiliated institutions are also located in thecountries mentioned above The World HealthOrganization located in Switzerland completesthis top ten of institutions

This field of studyrsquos emerging state iswell represented by the large number ofdocuments that correspond to editorial materialand letters The editorial material can allowfor innovative ideas representing a valuablesource of knowledge dissemination (Galbaacuten-Rodriacuteguez amp Arencibia-Jorge 2014) while aletter to the editor provides the opportunity forcommenting on the articles contributing withsuggestions clarifying concepts or providingalternative procedures to those proposed (Aalia2018) However it is still necessary thatthe development of research in the field of



COVID-19 as a multidisciplinary area allows itsconsolidation from a perspective that integratesthe physical and mental health of the population(Holmes et al 2020) as well as the psychologicalfactors that affect health professionals (Lai et al2020) These are part of the multiple challengesconfronting researchers in this pandemic (Menget al 2020 Tang et al 2020 Zhang et al 2020)

The present study is not exempt fromlimitations Among such limitations a) theperiod of data collection b) the categoriesof analysis and c) the disambiguation of theauthors Regarding the first point althoughan accelerated production was recorded in theanalyzed period (Kannan et al 2020 OrsquoBrienet al 2020 Remuzzi amp Remuzzi 2020 Zhao ampChen 2020) it continues The following wereestablished concerning the categories of analysisdistribution by journal document type countryinstitution and authors It is recommended toinclude other categories of analysis and indicatorsof analysis in future research Finally a potentialissue in the authorship analysis might occur whendifferent authors have the same name or whenauthors used different names overtime in theirpublications (Chiu amp Ho 2007) In this regardthe development of strategies to disambiguateand fix this issue to be more precise in identifyingthe authors is suggested (DAngelo et al 2011Salas 2019 Schulz 2016)

This bibliometric study allows for visualizingthe status of global scientific publications onCOVID-19 in five high impact journals and italso allows for the identification of the mostprominent authors In the future it will bepossible to carry out a retrospective analysis andinvestigate for instance whether the documentsin these journals contributed to generatesolutions to the COVID-19 pandemic morequickly The findings might also guide researchersand universities in formulating institutionalpolicies to disseminate COVID-19 research toachieve greater visibility and impact

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Research article This paper was written incolaboration with Prof Wilson Loacutepez-Loacutepez Editor inChief of Universitas Psychologica Regular double-blindpeer review was held by guest editors No conflicts ofinterest declared

[1] [information obtained from the Johns HopkinsUniversityrsquos Coronavirus Resource Center httpswwwcoronavirusjhuedumaphtml]



ha propiciado una abundancia de publicacionesraacutepidamente desde el inicio del brote En pocos meseshan aparecido miles de documentos de caraacutecter cientiacuteficoEl presente artiacuteculo tiene por objeto realizar un anaacutelisisbibliomeacutetrico de las publicaciones sobre COVID-19 encinco revistas cientiacuteficas de alto impacto indexados alScience Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) deWeb of Science Core Collection entre los cuales seencuentran The Lancet New England Journal of MedicineScience Nature y JAMA-Journal of the American MedicalAssociation Se encontraron 169 documentos asociadosa los criterios de buacutesqueda Los hallazgos indican queChina Estados Unidos y Reino Unido son los paiacuteses maacutesrepresentados en estas publicaciones The Lancet es larevista que presenta la mayor cantidad de contribucionescon un 66 de documentos y la University of HongKong lidera el ranking de instituciones Futuros estudiosbibliomeacutetricos y cienciomeacutetricos sobre COVID-19 debenbrindar informacioacuten actualizada que permita analizar otrosindicadores relevantes para este campoPalabras claveCOVID-19 bibliometriacutea Web of Science revistas cientiacuteficas factorde impacto

Coronaviruses are a broad group of zoonoticviruses that cause diverse illnesses ranging fromthe common cold to more severe diseases such asSevere Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) andthe Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)These syndromes represent a major threat topublic health (Abd El-Aziz amp Stockand 2020Sheahan et al 2020 Wolfe et al 2007 Wuet al 2020) requiring the development ofpublic policies as well as preventive and controlstrategies against the outbreak (Yang amp Jung2020)

The novel Coronavirus Disease-19(COVID-19) is a respiratory disease causedby the SARS-CoV-2 virus (Phan 2020) Thisnew outbreak was first reported in Wuhan inHubei province (China) in December 2019 (LuStratton et al 2020) Most of the initial caseshad visited the Huanan South seafood marketin Wuhan where varieties of live exotic animalswere also sold (Jalava 2020 Lu Zhao et al2020 Zhu et al 2020) Since the SARS outbreak18 years ago many SARS-related coronaviruses(SARS-CoV) have been discovered with batsbeing their natural host (Li et al 2005 Zhou etal 2020)

At the genetic level COVID-19 is closelyrelated to SARS and a lesser extent to MERSwhich have emerged as epidemiological threatsin recent years in China and the Middle East(Kotfis amp Skonieczna-Żydecka in press) Peoplewith COVID-19 may be asymptomatic developmild symptoms such as dry cough sore throatand fever or develop bilateral pneumonia orlow oxygen saturation which may end in acuterespiratory distress syndrome and death (Sohrabiet al 2020) Unfortunately to date there isno known effective proven and recognizedpharmacological treatment for SARS-Cov-2(Cortegiani et al 2020) Current therapeuticinterventions are used to control associatedconditions (thrombosis inflammation bacterialsuperinfections) or consequences of the courseof the disease (oxygen therapy and respiratorysupport) to reduce fatality rates Antiviraldrugs and vaccines are in the early stages ofdevelopment and may take many months or evenyears to be fully developed (Geier amp Geier 2020)

COVID-19 has spread worldwide which iswhy the World Health Organization (WHO)declared it a pandemic (Liu et al 2020 Mahase2020) Millions of people are infected andhundreds of thousands have died (Tufan ampKayaaslan 2020) The number of new cases isincreasing daily and this is monitored in realtime by the Coronavirus Resource Center of theJohns Hopkins University and other repositories(Velavan amp Meyer 2020) As of June 32020 6418078 confirmed cases and 381064deaths due to this disease had been reportedworldwide [1] The rapid increase in confirmedcases and deaths has generated concernrepresenting a serious threat to global publichealth (Wang Wang et al 2020) Thereforeactions for management prevention and controlof COVID-19 are extremely important for publichealth (Zheng et al 2020) and these dependprimarily on a countryrsquos health systemrsquos capacity(Gilbert 2020) This also requires rigorous andcontinuous monitoring of the scientific evidenceon COVID-19 to accurately identify and predictthe adaptation evolution transmission andpathogenicity of the disease Additionally it iscritical to monitor the best tools for diagnosis and














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