Abstract
Background: The corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak
originating in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, coincided with chunyun, the
period of mass migration for the annual Spring Festival. To contain its
spread, China adopted unprecedented nationwide interventions on January
23 2020. These policies included large-scale quarantine, strict controls
on travel and extensive monitoring of suspected cases. However, it is
unknown whether these policies have had an impact on the epidemic. We
sought to show how these control measures impacted the containment of
the epidemic. Methods: Web of Science database was searched on February
26, 2020 for Corona virus (COVID-19) publications published between 1997
to 2020. It was performed on the same day in order to avoid the possible
bias came from update on the database because the metrics are changing
over time. All publication types were considered; however publications
as errata were excluded. Analysis parameters include year of
publication, publication type, patterns of international collaboration,
research institutions, journals, impact factor, h-index, language, and
times cited. Results: A total of 12612Corona virus (COVID-19) research
publications were published across the world. The Corona virus
(COVID-19) associated publications were originated from 25
countries/territories, indicating the international spread of Corona
virus (COVID-19) research. The USA was the largest contributor, with
4524 articles published over 32 years, followed by Peoples R China(2667
articles). The total number of citations for these publications has
already achieved 8,015, with an average of 9.01 citations per each
publication. The h-index for Corona virus (COVID-19) -associated
publications was 48. The USA also have the highest h-index (32),
followed by KSA (26) and UK (22). Netherland produced the greatest
proportion of publications with international research collaboration
(72.7 %) followed by the UK (71 %) and Germany (69.1 %) out of the
total number of publications for each country.