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ArticleEuropean radiology2023

Publications on COVID-19 in radiology journals in 2020 and 2021: bibliometric citation and co-citation network analysis.

Antonio Navarro-Ballester, José A Merino-Bonilla, Luis H Ros-Mendoza, Santiago F Marco-Doménech

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Article in European radiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Antonio Navarro-BallesterRadiology Department, Hospital General Universitari de Castelló, Benicasim avenue, 128. P.C.: 12,004, Castellón de la Plana, Castellón, Spain. Antonio.navarroball@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1684-5473
José A Merino-BonillaRadiology Department, Hospital Santiago Apóstol, Carretera de Orón, s/n, 09200, Miranda de Ebro, Burgos, Spain.
Luis H Ros-MendozaRadiology Department, Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, P.º de Isabel la Católica, 1-3, 50009, Zaragoza, Spain.
Santiago F Marco-DoménechRadiology Department, Hospital General Universitari de Castelló, Benicasim avenue, 128. P.C.: 12,004, Castellón de la Plana, Castellón, Spain.
Hospital General Universitari de Castelló · ESHospital Santiago Apostol · ESHospital Universitario Miguel Servet · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesThe pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has led to the rapid publication of numerous radiology articles, primarily focused on disease diagnosis. The objective of this study is to analyze the intellectual structure of radiology research on COVID-19 using a citation and co-citation analysis.

methodsWe identified all documents about COVID-19 published in radiology journals included in the Web of Science in the period 2020-2021, conducting a citation analysis. Then we identified all bibliographic references that were cited by these documents, generating a co-citation matrix that was used to perform a co-citation network.

resultsOf the 3418 documents indexed in WoS, 857 were initially "Early Access," 2223 had citations, 393 had more than 20 citations, and 83 had more than 100 citations. The USA had the highest number of publications (32.62%) and China had the highest rate of funded studies (45.38%). The three authors with the most publications were affiliated with Italian institutions, while the five most cited authors were Chinese. A total of 647 publications were co-cited at least 12 times and were published in 206 different journals, with 49% of the documents found in radiology journals. The institutions with the greatest presence among these co-cited articles were Chinese and American.

conclusionThis co-citation analysis is the first to focus exclusively on radiology articles on COVID-19. Our study confirms the existence of interrelated thematic clusters with different specific weights. KEY POINTS: • As the pandemic caused by SARS-Cov-2 has led to the rapid publication of numerous radiology studies in a short time period, a bibliometric review based on citation and co-citation analysis has been conducted. • The co-citation analysis supported the identification of key themes in the study of COVID-19 in radiology publications. • Many of the most co-cited articles belong to a heterogeneous group of publications, with authors from countries that are far apart and even from different disciplines.

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COVID-19Periodicals as TopicRadiologyBibliometricsHumansSARS-CoV-2United StatesBibliometricsCo-citationRadiologySARS-CoV-2

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PMID36571605
PMCPMC9791158
OpenAlexW4312222642

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