Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Basic Medicine, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2020 Sep 23;10:581404. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2020.581404. eCollection 2020.
Human coronaviruses, which can cause a range of infectious diseases, have been studied for nearly 60 years. The field has gained renewed interest from researchers around the world due to the COVID-19 outbreak in late 2019. Despite a large amount of research, little is known about the knowledge structure and developing trends of this topic. Here, we apply bibliometric analysis along with visualization tools to analyze 15,207 publications related to human coronavirus from the Scopus database, using indicators on publication and citation, journal, country or territory, affiliation and international cooperation, author, and keyword co-occurrence cluster. The results show that research on human coronavirus is dominated by SARS-CoV. Although there have been many publications, only 626 publications (4.1% of total) have more than 100 citations. The top 20 journals with most publications account for 20.6% of total publications and 41% of total citations. In addition to the United States and some European countries, many Asian and African countries are involved in this research, with China holding an important position in this area. Leading researchers from various fields of human coronavirus research are listed to facilitate collaboration and promote effective disease prevention and control. The keywords co-occurrence analysis reveals that the research focus on virology, public health, drugs and other hotspot fields, and uncovers changes in the direction of coronavirus research. The research map on human coronavirus obtained by our analysis are expected to help researchers to efficiently and effectively explore COVID-19.
人类冠状病毒可引起多种传染病，自近 60 年前发现以来一直是研究热点。由于 2019 年底 COVID-19 疫情的爆发，全世界的研究人员对该领域又重新产生了兴趣。尽管进行了大量的研究，但人们对该主题的知识结构和发展趋势仍知之甚少。在这里，我们应用文献计量分析和可视化工具，使用出版物和引文、期刊、国家或地区、隶属关系和国际合作、作者和关键词共现聚类等指标，对来自 Scopus 数据库的 15207 篇与人类冠状病毒相关的出版物进行了分析。结果表明，人类冠状病毒的研究主要以 SARS-CoV 为主。尽管已经有很多出版物，但只有 626 篇（占总数的 4.1%）的引文超过 100 次。发文量最多的前 20 种期刊占总发文量的 20.6%，总引文量的 41%。除了美国和一些欧洲国家外，许多亚洲和非洲国家也参与了这项研究，中国在这一领域占有重要地位。列出了各个领域的人类冠状病毒研究的主要研究人员，以促进合作，推动有效的疾病预防和控制。关键词共现分析揭示了病毒学、公共卫生、药物等热点领域的研究重点，并揭示了冠状病毒研究方向的变化。我们通过分析得到的人类冠状病毒研究图谱，有望帮助研究人员高效、有效地探索 COVID-19。
