World Journal of Engineering Research and Technology

Dr. E. S. Kavitha*

ABSTRACT

Corona viruses (CoVs) are a large family of viruses and are endemic in humans and animals, causing respiratory and intestinal infections. The study attempted to analyze the year wise, author?s wise contribution of Corona virus research and explored about the authorship pattern. The study aims at citations per year; citations per author in the Corona virus research and calculate the trend analysis on Corona virus research. The dataset from 2010 to 2020 was obtained from Google scholar through publish or perish. Theme words for searching were referred to MESH terms from PoP search term were as follows ?Corona viruses. It is noticed that among the study period, totally 3392 articles published in Corona virus which was indexed in Google Scholar. In the study period, highest level of articles published in 2020 was 414 articles. Total number of 12972authors contributed to the Corona virus research. It is noticed that number of authors contributed in the year 2020 as 1651 (12.45%). In the year 2013 around 16581highest number of citations of was received with top position of citation and 2014 received 13853 citations rated with second position on citation. 29554.5 citations per year was noticed, highest level of cites per year was noticed during 2012. It is understood that there was research on corona virus by single author to 4 authors from the major group through degree of collaboration. It is noticed that USA contributed 598 articles, placed first and that Journal of Virology published 544 articles. The study mentioned that by 2025 the solo research productivity will have 77 percent growth in the field of corona virus. The study highlighted that by 2025 that the Joint research productivity will have 80 percent growth in the field of corona virus.

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