Title
World scientific production on the vaccine against COVID-19: Analysis of the period 2020-2021
Other title
[Producción científica mundial sobre la vacuna contra el Covid-19: Análisis del período 2020-2021]
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Venezuelan Society of Pharmacology and Clinical and Therapeutic Pharmacology
Abstract
Objective. Characterize the global scientific production on the vaccine to combat Covid-19 in the Scopus, Web of Science, Google Academic, PubMed, Microsoft Academic and Crosreff databases between the months of January 2020 to April 2021. Material and methods. We worked with a universe made up of 3817 articles obtained. Bibliometric indicators were calcu- lated through Publish or Perish v. 7.31, VOSwiever, Pubrem- iner, Dimensions and the same analytical software from the chosen databases. Results. The results indicate a total of 30619 citations, with an average of 5103; 11 and 2251 cita- tions per year, citations per article and citations per author re- spectively. On average, publications have an h-index of 26.00, a g-index of 42.00, and an e-index of 33.59. Prompetchara’s study, Eakachai; Kettoy, Chutitorn; Palaga, Tanapat, (2020), the British Medical Journal - BMJ, USA is the main producer of scientific evidence on vaccines and the type of scientific production that stands out the most are original articles. Con- clusions. These results show that the production of scientific articles on the vaccine to combat Covid-19 has experienced significant growth, which shows the enormous scientific effort made worldwide to control this disease.
Start page
396
End page
405
Volume
40
Issue
4
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Epidemiología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85116878893
Source
Archivos Venezolanos de Farmacologia y Terapeutica
ISSN of the container
07980264
Sources of information: Directorio de Producción Científica Scopus