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Lihuan Guo1,2, Wei Wang3, Yenchun Jim Wu4,5
1Tan Siu Lin Business School, Quanzhou Normal University, Quanzhou, Fujian, China.
SAGE Open
|June 26, 2023
Summary
This study analyzed 54,136 COVID-19 research papers from 2020. Future research focuses on pandemic management, diagnosis, and clinical testing, with medical research dominating the landscape.
Area of Science:
- Computational biology and bioinformatics
- Public health and epidemiology
- Medical research analysis
Background:
- The COVID-19 pandemic spurred a massive volume of academic research.
- Understanding research trends is crucial for guiding future scientific endeavors.
- A comprehensive analysis of early COVID-19 research (Jan-Dec 2020) is needed.
Purpose of the Study:
- To identify and categorize future research directions in COVID-19 studies.
- To project future research plans based on an analysis of early publications.
- To understand the thematic evolution of COVID-19 research.
Main Methods:
- Text mining and preprocessing of 54,136 COVID-19 academic journals.
- Development of a text clustering model using an autoencoder and artificial neural network.
- Comparison of distance measurements (cosine similarity favored) and topic modeling for research categorization.
Main Results:
- Seven key future research categories were identified: infectivity testing, genome analysis, vaccine testing, diagnosis/infection characteristics, pandemic management, nursing care, and clinical testing.
- Pandemic management, diagnosis, and clinical testing showed upward trends.
- Medical research constituted 80% of the topics, with 20% related to public management and economic development.
Conclusions:
- The study provides a data-driven overview of early COVID-19 research trajectories.
- Identified trends can inform strategic planning for future scientific output and resource allocation.
- This analysis enhances understanding of the scientific response to the pandemic.
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