Mapping the research landscape of Covid-19 from social sciences perspective: a bibliometric analysis.

Autor/inn/en	Roychowdhury, Koel; Bhanja, Radhika; Biswas, Sushmita
Titel	Mapping the research landscape of Covid-19 from social sciences perspective: a bibliometric analysis.
Quelle	In: Scientometrics, (2022) 8, S.4547-4568 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0138-9130
DOI	10.1007/s11192-022-04447-x
Schlagwörter	Covid-19; Social sciences research; Bibliometrics; Coronavirus; Developed nations; Developing nations
Abstract	Abstract COVID-19 has emerged as a widely researched topic and the academia has taken interest in the effects of COVID-19 in various sectors of human life and society. Most of the bibliometric research addresses scientific contributions in medicine, health, and virology related topics, with very little emphasis on social sciences. Therefore, to address this gap, a bibliometric analysis of research related to COVID-19 in the subject area of social sciences was performed on selected publications from January 2020 to mid-2021. A total of 9289 articles were analysed to identify major emerging themes of Covid-19 and social sciences and how research collaborations between countries have helped in communicating critical issues to academia. The empirical results indicate the dominance of psychology and business economics subjects in the social sciences sphere, with the emerging themes as psychosocial problems among people, economics, the outbreak of SARS, and discussions on the quality of life in terms of surroundings and environment. The study also suggests that more collaborations between social scientists working in different nations is required to explore the less focussed themes addressing the local challenges of poor nations.
Erfasst von	OLC
Update	2023/2/05