Research on Schistosomiasis in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Bibliometric Analysis

Raquel Sánchez-Marqués, Santiago Mas-Coma, Joaquín Salas-Coronas, Jerôme Boissier and María Dolores Bargues
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Raquel Sánchez-Marqués: Departmento de Parasitología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Valencia, Av. Vicent Andres Estellés s/n, Burjassot, 46100 Valencia, Spain
Santiago Mas-Coma: Departmento de Parasitología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Valencia, Av. Vicent Andres Estellés s/n, Burjassot, 46100 Valencia, Spain
Joaquín Salas-Coronas: Tropical Medicine Unit, Hospital del Poniente, Ctra. de Almerimar 31, El Ejido, 04700 Almería, Spain
Jerôme Boissier: IHPE, University Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, University Perpignan Via Domitia, F-66000 Perpignan, France
María Dolores Bargues: Departmento de Parasitología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Valencia, Av. Vicent Andres Estellés s/n, Burjassot, 46100 Valencia, Spain

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 13, 1-14

Abstract: The objectives of this work are to check whether the COVID-19 pandemic affected the research on schistosomiasis, to provide an insight into the most productive countries and journals and the most cited publications, and to analyse any association between the total publications of countries and a set of socio-economic and demographic factors. Based on PRISMA methodology, we used the Scopus database to search for articles published between 1 January 2020 and 26 March 2022. VOSviewer was used to generate the co-authorship and the co-occurrence networks, and Spearman’s rank correlation was applied to study associations. A total of 1988 articles were included in the study. Although we found that the year-wise distribution of publications suggests no impact on schistosomiasis research, many resources have been devoted to research on COVID-19, and the Global Schistosomiasis Alliance revealed the main activities for eradication of schistosomiasis had been affected. The most productive country was the United States of America. The articles were mainly published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases . The most prolific funding institution was the National Natural Science Foundation of China. The total publications per country were significantly correlated with population, GERD, and researchers per million inhabitants, but not with GDP per capita and MPM.

Keywords: schistosomiasis; COVID-19; bibliometric analysis; socio-economic indicators; correlation analysis; PRISMA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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