Bibliometric method for mapping the state of the art of scientific production in Covid-19

Chaos Solitons Fractals. 2020 Oct:139:110052. doi: 10.1016/j.chaos.2020.110052. Epub 2020 Jun 30.

Abstract

Global scientific production around the Covid-19 pandemic, in the various disciplines on the various international scientific bibliographic databases, has grown exponentially. The latter builds a source of scientific enrichment and an important lever for most researchers around the world, each of its field and its position with an ultimate aim of overcoming this pandemic. In this direction, bibliometric data constitute a fundamental source in the process of evaluation of scientific production in the academic world; bibliometrics provides researchers and institutions with crucial strategic information for the enhancement of their research results with the local and international scientific community, especially in this international pandemic.

Keywords: Bibliometric analysis; Bibliometric method; Covid-19; Scientific production; Scientific research.