The swift knowledge development path of COVID-19 research: the first 150 days

Mei Hsiu-Ching Ho; John S Liu

doi:10.1007/s11192-020-03835-5

The swift knowledge development path of COVID-19 research: the first 150 days

Scientometrics. 2021;126(3):2391-2399. doi: 10.1007/s11192-020-03835-5. Epub 2021 Feb 1.

Authors

Mei Hsiu-Ching Ho¹, John S Liu¹

Affiliation

¹ National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, No.43, Keelung Rd., Sec.4, Da'an Dist., Taipei, 10607 Taiwan, ROC.

Abstract

Scholars all over the world have produced a large body of COVID-19 literature in an exceptionally short period after the outbreak of this rapidly-spreading virus. An analysis of the literature accumulated in the first 150 days hints that the rapid knowledge accumulation in its early-stage development was expedited through a wide variety of journal platforms, a sense and pressure of national urgency, and inspiration from journal editorials.

Keywords: Covid-19; Knowledge network; Literature analysis; Main path analysis.