COVID-19: A scholarly production dataset report for research analysis

Breno Santana Santos; Ivanovitch Silva; Marcel da Câmara Ribeiro-Dantas; Gisliany Alves; Patricia Takako Endo; Luciana Lima

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2020.106178

COVID-19: A scholarly production dataset report for research analysis

Data Brief. 2020 Oct:32:106178. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.106178. Epub 2020 Aug 19.

Authors

Breno Santana Santos^{1

2}, Ivanovitch Silva¹, Marcel da Câmara Ribeiro-Dantas³, Gisliany Alves¹, Patricia Takako Endo⁴, Luciana Lima¹

Affiliations

¹ Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
² Núcleo de Pesquisa e Prática em Inteligência Competitiva (NUPIC), Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS), Itabaiana, SE, Brazil.
³ Institut Curie (UMR168), Sorbonne Université (EDITE), Paris, France.
⁴ Universidade de Pernambuco (UPE), Pernambuco, Brazil.

Abstract

COVID-2019 has been recognized as a global threat, and several studies are being conducted in order to contribute to the fight and prevention of this pandemic. This work presents a scholarly production dataset focused on COVID-19, providing an overview of scientific research activities, making it possible to identify countries, scientists and research groups most active in this task force to combat the coronavirus disease. The dataset is composed of 40,212 records of articles' metadata collected from Scopus, PubMed, arXiv and bioRxiv databases from January 2019 to July 2020. Those data were extracted by using the techniques of Python Web Scraping and preprocessed with Pandas Data Wrangling. In addition, the pipeline to preprocess and generate the dataset are versioned with the Data Version Control tool (DVC) and are thus easily reproducible and auditable.

Keywords: Bibliometrics; COVID-19; Data Science; Pandemic; SARS-CoV-2; Scientometrics.