scholarly journals A Bibliometric Analysis of COVID-19 across Science and Social Science Research Landscape

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksander Aristovnik ◽  
Dejan Ravšelj ◽  
Lan Umek
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Wuhan City ◽  
Current State ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Fast Spreading ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan City, Hubei province of China at the end of 2019, has radically transformed the lives of people around the world. Due to its fast spreading, it is currently considered as a worldwide health, social and economic concern. The lack of knowledge on this area has encouraged academic sphere for extensive research, which is reflected in exponentially growing scientific literature in this area. However, current state of COVID-19 research reveals only early development of knowledge, while a comprehensive and in-depth overview remains neglected. Accordingly, the main aim of this paper is to fill the aforementioned gap in the literature and provide an extensive bibliometric analysis of COVID-19 research across science and social science research landscape. The bibliometric analysis is based on the Scopus database including all relevant and latest information on COVID-19 related publications (n=10,344) in the January-May 2020 period. The findings emphasize an importance of a comprehensive and in-depth approach considering different scientific disciplines in COVID-19 research. The understanding of the evolution of emerging scientific knowledge on COVID-19 is beneficial not only for scientific community but also for evidence-based policymaking in order to prevent and address the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Analysis of COVID-19 across Science and Social Science Research Landscape

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksander Aristovnik ◽  
Dejan Ravšelj ◽  
Lan Umek
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Wuhan City ◽  
Current State ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Fast Spreading ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan City, Hubei province of China at the end of 2019, has radically transformed the lives of people around the world. Due to its fast spreading, it is currently considered as a worldwide health, social and economic concern. The lack of knowledge on this area has encouraged academic sphere for extensive research, which is reflected in exponentially growing scientific literature in this area. However, current state of COVID-19 research reveals only early development of knowledge, while a comprehensive and in-depth overview remains neglected. Accordingly, the main aim of this paper is to fill the aforementioned gap in the literature and provide an extensive bibliometric analysis of COVID-19 research across science and social science research landscape. The bibliometric analysis is based on the Scopus database including all relevant and latest information on COVID-19 related publications (n=16,866) in the first half of 2020. The findings emphasize an importance of a comprehensive and in-depth approach considering different scientific disciplines in COVID-19 research. The understanding of the evolution of emerging scientific knowledge on COVID-19 is beneficial not only for scientific community but also for evidence-based policymaking in order to prevent and address the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Analysis of COVID-19 across Science and Social Science Research Landscape

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksander Aristovnik ◽  
Dejan Ravšelj ◽  
Lan Umek
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Venn Diagram ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Current State ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Fast Spreading ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan City, Hubei province of China at the end of 2019, has radically transformed the lives of people around the world. Due to its fast spreading, it is currently considered as a worldwide health, social and economic concern. The lack of knowledge on this area has encouraged academic sphere for extensive research, which is reflected in exponentially growing scientific literature in this area. However, current state of COVID-19 research reveals only early development of knowledge, while a comprehensive and in-depth overview remains neglected. Accordingly, the main aim of this paper is to fill the aforementioned gap in the literature and provide an extensive bibliometric analysis of COVID-19 research across science and social science research landscape, using innovative and sophisticated bibliometric approaches (e.g. Venn diagram, Biblioshiny descriptive statistics, VOSviewer co-occurrence network analysis, Jaccard distance cluster analysis, text mining based on logistic regression). The bibliometric analysis is based on the Scopus database including all relevant and latest information on COVID-19 related publications (n=16,866) in the first half of 2020. The empirical results indicate that there is still a lack of publications of COVID-19 and its implications in less-explored (non-health) sciences, especially in social sciences. Accordingly, the findings emphasize an importance of a comprehensive and in-depth approach considering different scientific disciplines in COVID-19 research. The understanding of the evolution of emerging scientific knowledge on COVID-19 is beneficial not only for scientific community but also for evidence-based policymaking in order to prevent and address the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Analysis of COVID-19 across Science and Social Science Research Landscape

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksander Aristovnik ◽  
Dejan Ravšelj ◽  
Lan Umek
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Wuhan City ◽  
Current State ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan City, Hubei province of China at the end of 2019, has radically transformed the lives of people around the world. Due to its high spreading, it is currently considered as a worldwide health, social and economic concern. The lack of knowledge on this area has encouraged academic sphere for extensive research, which is reflected in exponentially growing scientific literature in this area. However, current state of COVID-19 research reveals only early development of knowledge, while a comprehensive and in-depth overview remains neglected. Accordingly, the main aim of this paper is to fill the aforementioned gap in the literature and provide an extensive bibliometric analysis of COVID-19 research across science and social science research landscape. The bibliometric analysis is based on the Scopus database including all relevant and latest information on COVID-19 related publications. The findings emphasize an importance of a comprehensive and in-depth approach considering different scientific disciplines in COVID-19 research. The understanding of the evolution of emerging scientific knowledge on COVID-19 is beneficial not only for scientific community but also for evidence-based policymaking in order to prevent and address the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals A Bibliometric Analysis of COVID-19 across Science and Social Science Research Landscape

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9132
Author(s):  
Aleksander Aristovnik ◽  
Dejan Ravšelj ◽  
Lan Umek
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Venn Diagram ◽  
Scientific Disciplines

The lack of knowledge about the COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged extensive research in the academic sphere, reflected in the exponentially growing scientific literature. While the state of COVID-19 research reveals it is currently in an early stage of developing knowledge, a comprehensive and in-depth overview is still missing. Accordingly, the paper’s main aim is to provide an extensive bibliometric analysis of COVID-19 research across the science and social science research landscape, using innovative bibliometric approaches (e.g., Venn diagram, Biblioshiny descriptive statistics, VOSviewer co-occurrence network analysis, Jaccard distance cluster analysis, text mining based on binary logistic regression). The bibliometric analysis considers the Scopus database, including all relevant information on COVID-19 related publications (n = 16,866) available in the first half of 2020. The empirical results indicate the domination of health sciences in terms of number of relevant publications and total citations, while physical sciences and social sciences and humanities lag behind significantly. Nevertheless, there is an evidence of COVID-19 research collaboration within and between different subject area classifications with a gradual increase in importance of non-health scientific disciplines. The findings emphasize the great need for a comprehensive and in-depth approach that considers various scientific disciplines in COVID-19 research so as to benefit not only the scientific community but evidence-based policymaking as part of efforts to properly respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mats Alvesson ◽  
Yiannis Gabriel ◽  
Roland Paulsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
World Today ◽  
Iron Cage ◽  
Current State ◽  
Key Stakeholders

This chapter concludes the book by examining various possible objections that readers may raise by adopting the perspective of a sympathetic but critical reviewer, and considers how social science research may break out of its self-inflicted iron cage and renew its commitment to addressing the major issues and problems that face our world today. A number of different objections are considered and refuted. These include the charges that our arguments and advocacies are elitist, utopian/idealistic, nostalgic, unrealistic, and so forth. It is argued that the current state of social science research is politically, financially, and educationally unsustainable, that an increasing number of key stakeholders are becoming aware and alarmed at the vast costs and virtual irrelevance of social science research, and that calls for a fundamental reform of research institutions and practices are gathering momentum.

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