What country, university or research institute, performed the best on COVID-19? Bibliometric analysis of scientific literature

TL;DR

This study uses bibliometric data mining to identify leading countries, universities, and companies in COVID-19 research, comparing pandemic research trends from 1900-2020 with COVID-19 specific data.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive bibliometric analysis comparing COVID-19 research with historical pandemic data from 1900-2020, revealing collaboration patterns and research trends.

Findings

Identifies top countries, universities, and companies in COVID-19 research.

Highlights differences between COVID-19 research and historical pandemic research.

Visualizes collaboration and research output patterns.

Abstract

In this article, we conduct data mining to discover the countries, universities and companies, produced or collaborated the most research on Covid-19 since the pandemic started. We present some interesting findings, but despite analysing all available records on COVID-19 from the Web of Science Core Collection, we failed to reach any significant conclusions on how the world responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, we increased our analysis to include all available data records on pandemics and epidemics from 1900 to 2020. We discover some interesting results on countries, universities and companies, that produced collaborated most the most in research on pandemic and epidemics. Then we compared the results with the analysing on COVID-19 data records. This has created some interesting findings that are explained and graphically visualised in the article.