Scientometric Trends for Coronaviruses and Other Emerging Viral Infections

Dima Kagan; Jacob Moran-Gilad; Michael Fire

By inspecting global collaboration and research efforts, we found that the geolocation of researchers correlated with publication trends. For instance, most SARS, MERS, and avian influenza research was done by investigators based in the US and China (Figure 9 ). While the US was dominant in the research of all inspected diseases, China showed an increased output in only these three diseases. Also, MERS and SARS were studied in the least number of countries, and HIV was studied in the highest number of countries ( Figure 9 ). Moreover, SARS and MERS were the diseases least studied in Europe, with only 17% and 13 . CC-BY-ND 4.0 International license author/funder. It is made available under a The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.17.995795 doi: bioRxiv preprint 19% of SARS and MERS studies, respectively, as opposed to Ebola studies, 29% of which were conducted in Europe.