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. 2022 Jul 21;19(14):8845.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph19148845.

Mapping Scientific Productivity Trends and Hotspots in Remdesivir Research Publications: A Bibliometric Study from 2016 to 2021

Ropo E Ogunsakin  1 , Oluwakemi Ebenezer  2 , Maryam A Jordaan  2 , Michael Shapi  2 , Themba G Ginindza  1   3
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Mapping Scientific Productivity Trends and Hotspots in Remdesivir Research Publications: A Bibliometric Study from 2016 to 2021

Ropo E Ogunsakin et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

In response to global efforts to control and exterminate infectious diseases, this study aims to provide insight into the productivity of remdesivir research and highlight future directions. To achieve this, there is a need to summarize and curate evidence from the literature. As a result, this study carried out comprehensive scientific research to detect trends in published articles related to remdesivir using a bibliometric analysis. Keywords associated with remdesivir were used to access pertinent published articles using the Scopus database. A total of 5321 research documents were retrieved, primarily as novel research articles (n = 2440; 46%). The number of publications increased exponentially from 2020 up to the present. The papers published by the top 12 institutions focusing on remdesivir accounted for 25.69% of the overall number of articles. The USA ranked as the most productive country, with 906 documents (37.1%), equivalent to one-third of the global publications in this field. The most productive institution was Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, in the USA (103 publications). The New England Journal of Medicine was the most cited, with an h-index of 13. The publication of research on remdesivir has gained momentum in the past year. The importance of remdesivir suggests that it needs continued research to help global health organizations detect areas requiring instant action to implement suitable measures. Furthermore, this study offers evolving hotspots and valuable insights into the scientific advances in this field and provides scaling-up analysis and evidence diffusion on remdesivir.

Keywords: SARS-CoV-2; Scopus; bibliometrics; remdesivir; science mapping.

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The author declares that the research was conducted in the nonappearance of any financial associations that could be considered a possible conflict of interest.

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The methodological phase of bibliometric analysis.
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Figure 2
Word cloud of author keywords. The word cloud describes the frequency of author keywords in remdesivir research (Source: Author calculation).
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Figure 3
Keyword-co-occurrence-network visualization for remdesivir research.
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Figure 4
The top 50 author keywords in documents related to remdesivir. Note: pink—cluster 1, blue—cluster 2; green—cluster 3; purple—cluster 4; orange—cluster 5.
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Figure 5
Visualization of academic collaboration between the authors.
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Figure 6
Visualization of collaborative network by countries.
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Figure 7
Visualization of institution collaborations.
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