BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF COVID-19 VACCINE RESEARCH OUTPUT IN 2020: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

The paper attempts to ascertain global research output on Covid-19 Vaccine on the basis of data retrieved from SCOPUS database. The total research output included 383 publications. The VOS-viewer and Microsoft Excel were used for data analysis and visualization. The most productive countries, institutions, authors and sources are identified in this study. The study also identifies the top funding organizations in this area of research. The top most cited papers on Covid-19 Vaccine are recognized. The United States is most productive country with 122 papers and 1157 citations to these papers. United States and United Kingdom are leading collaborators who produced maximum papers (15) in collaboration. The Harvard Medical School from United States is leading institute in terms of institutional research output. Bottazi, M.E. from Baylor College of Medicine, United States has been found most prolific author with 7 papers and 108 citations to his papers. Among most productive sources titles used for the publication of Covid-19 Vaccine research,Nature is found most productive journal with 25 papers followed byScience with 17 papers. The National Institutes of Health from United States is leading funding organization. The keyword Human was maximum used word with 320 occurrences followed byVirus Vaccine (316) andCoronavirus Infection (300).

Keywords: Covid-19 Vaccine; Coronavirus; Bibliometrics; Scopus; VOS-viewer; Visualization; Collaboration.