%0 Journal Article %A Dehghanbanadaki, Hojat %A Seif, Farhad %A Vahidi, Yasmin %A Razi, Farideh %A Hashemi, Ehsan %A Khoshmirsafa, Majid %A Aazami, Hossein %T Bibliometric analysis of global scientific research on Coronavirus (COVID-19) %J Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic Of Iran %V 34 %N 1 %U http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/article-1-6629-en.html %R 10.47176/mjiri.34.51 %D 2020 %K Novel Coronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Scientometrics, Bibliometrics, %X Background: Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease from Wuhan, China, in early December 2019, many scientists focused on this infection to find a way to deal with it. Due to the dramatic scientific growth in this field, we conducted a scientometric study to gain a better understanding of the scientific literature on COVID-19. Methods: We extracted all COVID-19 documents indexed in the Scopus from December 1, 2019, to April 1, 2020, without any language limitation and determined their bibliometric characteristics, including document type, open accessibility status, citation counting, H-index, top cited documents, the most productive countries, institutions and journals, international collaboration, the most frequent terms and keywords, journal bibliographic coupling and cocitations. Results: A total of 923 documents on COVID-19 were retrieved, of which 418 were original articles. All documents had received 2551 citations with an average citation of 2.76 per document and an h-index of 23. China ranked first with 348 documents, followed by the United States (n = 160). The Lancet and BMJ Clinical Research Ed published the most documents (each with 74 documents) and 2 institutions (University of Hong Kong and Huazhong University of Science and Technology) ranked first in this regard. In addition, the present study analyzed the top 25 highly-cited documents (those that had received 70% of all citations). Conclusion: This study highlighted the focused subjects on various aspects of COVID-19 literature such as pathogenesis, epidemiology, transmission, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and its complications. %> http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/article-1-6629-en.pdf %P 354-362 %& 354 %! Bibliometric analysis of global scientific research on Coronavirus %9 Original Research %L A-10-3673-4 %+ Diabetes Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, & Scientometrics Department, FarIdea Company, Tehran, Iran %G eng %@ 1016-1430 %[ 2020