The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cardiovascular disease research: a bibliometric analysis Husnul Khuluq
Universitas Muhammadiyah Gombong
Abstract
Background: During the pandemic, the literature on the COVID-19 landscape has improved significantly. Cardiovascular disease is a significant risk factor for COVID-19 patients. In this paper, we will use bibliometric analysis to map the patterns in global COVID-19 on Cardiovascular research, allowing researchers to easily evaluate research areas and find extensive research directions.
Methods: Scientific literature on COVID-19 and cardiovascular disease were found by searching the Scopus Core Collection database. Each selected paper^s title, authors, contributing institute, nation, source journal, times cited, and extra data were extracted. For analyzing the extracted data and exporting the bar charts and tables, Microsoft Excel 2019 was used. The R Studio/biblioshiny for bibliometrix aplication was used to execute and map global research trends and hotspots in this topic.
Result: A total of 1.313 papers were retrieved, with 84 countries, 2,789 organizations, 567 publications, and 5,128 keywords included. United states had the most overall citations, followed by China,United Kingdom, and Italy. United Stated had four of the top ten most referenced organizations, including Harvard Medical School, which had the most documents. The most mentioned journal was the Arquivos Brasileiros De Cardiologia. The paper by Guo T et al. (The Jama Cardiol, 2020) was the most representative and widely quoted. The keywords were mostly focused on : cardiovascular disease, human, coronavirus disease 2019 are recent hotspots of concern.
Conclusions: This study identified global research patterns in COVID-19 and Cardiovascuar disease, which may aid scientists in finding relevant collaborators as well as identifying existing hotspots and potential research areas.
