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RBU Journal of library & Information Science, V. 23, 2021UGC-CAREPeer ReviewedISSN: 0972-2750Mapping output of the scientific literature on Infodemicresearch: a Scopus based analysis (2004-2020)Shakil Ahmad, Dr Akhtar Hussain & Dr Sabahat NausheenManuscript Received on –30 rd August 2021Primary Reviewed on –5 th September 2021Peer Reviewed on –20 th September 2021Accepted for publication27 th September 2021ABSTRACT:Shakil AhmadLecturer, Deanship of LibraryAffairsImam Abdulrahman Bin FaisalUniversity.Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Email:shakilahma@gmail.comDr Akhtar HussainAssistant Librarian, NationalInstitute for the Empowerment ofPersons with IntellectualDisabilities (NIEPID). Noida,Uttar Pradesh, IndiaEmail: akhtar.a47@gmail.comDr Sabahat NausheenAssistant Librarian, RabindraBhavna, Visva-Bharati,Santiniketan, West Bengal, IndiaEmail:sabahat0802@yahoo.co.inIntroduction: The pandemic of COVID-19 caused additional info-emergence, whichinvolved the sharing of false information and unsourced health recommendations amongvarious media outlets and digital portals. Infodemiology is an information technology andepidemiology research platform to tackle urgent public health concerns and policy decisionmaking.Purpose: The purpose of the current study was to assess research activity and output ofscientific literature on Infodemic research during the period 2004 to 2020Research problem: What are the publishing trends in infodemic from 2004-2020?What are the preferred journals of researchers in infodemic?What are the most productive countries, organizations, and authors in infodemic?What are the authorship and collaborative patterns of research in infodemic?What are the frequently used keywords in infodemic research?Methodology: The Scopus database was used to retrieve bibliographic data using the“infodemic” keywords available in the title, abstract, and keyword fields from 2004 to 2020.A total of 919 data were retrieved for the study. Basic bibliometric approaches have beenused to evaluate annual growth trends in production, journals, institutes, and authors. TheScientoPy and VOS Viewer software have drawn co-citation networks between productiveauthors of highly cited articles.Findings: USA was the most influential country, and the Harvard Medical School, USA,was the most productive institution. Brigo F from the University of Verona, UK, was themost productive author. Brownstein JS from the Harvard Medical School, USA, was themost productive author among the highly cited articles and ranked first with h_index valueten and g_index value 14. The authors are concerned with the m_index. With 1.667m_index, Wang Y from Fudan University, China, was ranked first. Journal of MedicalInternet Research, JMIR Publications, Canada (IF2019 = 4.945) was the most productivejournal.“Journal of Medical Internet Research” with 3117 was the most cited paper. TheJournal of Medical Internet Research ranked first with h_index value 30 and g_index value52. The American Journal of Public Health had the highest IF (IF2019 = 6.464) withQ1.The Journal of Medical Internet Research has published the largest number of articleson infodemic research.KEYWORDS:COVID-19; Infodemic; Infodemiology, Infodemic Research; Social Media;Bibliometric analysis80https://lisrbu.wixsite.com/dlis/rbu-journal-of-lis
Ahemd, Hussain and Nausheen: Mapping output of scientific literature …IntroductionThe 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) novelpandemic has now exceeded a million documented casesglobally. The pandemic has forced unprecedented socialdistancing measures and the cancelation of non-essentialservices. COVID-19, caused by the coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) viral pathogen extreme acute respiratorysyndrome, has permeated populations at unprecedentedlevels. The World Health Organization (WHO) announceda pandemic only a few months after the disease was firstreported in December 2019. But before that, the WHO hadwarned the public of an "infodemic," described as"overabundance of information some accurate and somenot (Gazendam et al., 2020)."Further, WHO is leading efforts to slow the spread ofcoronavirus disease (COVID-19) by 2019. But a globalinformation epidemic that spreads rapidly through socialmedia platforms and other outlets poses a serious publichealth problem."We're not just fighting an epidemic; we're fighting aninfodemic," said WHO Director-General Tedros AdhanomGhebreyesus at the Munich Security Conference on Feb15, 2020. After the World Health Organization's declaredCOVID-19 as an International Public Health Emergency(PHEIC), The WHO Information Network (EPI-WIN) hasbeen launched as a new information platform. The aimwas to exchange tailored data with certain target groups;on Mar 11, it was eventually called a pandemic(Zarocostas, 2020).Although the term Infodemiology was coined in 2002,Eysenbach (2002) concerns that infodemic ormisinformation outbreaks are almost as old as the WorldWide Web (Eysenbach, 2020). The word infodemic hasbeen devised to outline the perils of misinformationphenomena during the management of virus outbreakssince it could even speed up the epidemic process byinfluencing and fragmenting social response (Cinelli et al.,2020; Kim et al., 2019). As the WHO calls it, Infodemicsis a keyword where different stakeholders' participationand stricter regulations are needed to reduce the impact offake news on this information age and social media.Although different countries will need differentapproaches, focusing on their humanitarian nature andaddressing Infodemic issues are the two key factors forfuture global mitigation efforts (Hua & Shaw, 2020). Thedistribution of knowledge will affect human behavior andalter the efficacy of government countermeasures. Despitethis respect, the models for forecasting the transmission ofthe virus are beginning to consider the behavioral reactionof the community concerning public health initiatives andthe connectivity mechanisms behind the ingestion ofinformation (Cinelli et al., 2020).Such a study is often carried out by counting referencescited by many researchers in their papers (Hussain &Fatima, 2011). Guide on documentary effect and growingexposure for knowledge on bibliometrics used todetermine the efficiency of a study (Osareh, 1996).Bibliometrics connotes the science of measurement aboutbooks or documents. In a sense, information science is anextension of library science or an extension of referenceservices (Hussain, 2017). Traditionally, it relates to thequantitative measurement of documentary materials. Manyresearch areas use bibliometric methods to study theimpact of their field, the impact of several scientists, theimpact of a specific paper, or to determine specificallyimpactful papers within a certain field of research. In thiscontext, researchers conducted a study mapping output ofthe scientific literature on Infodemic research: A Scopusbasedanalysis (2004-2020) (Hussain & Fatima, 2011).Literature Review81https://lisrbu.wixsite.com/dlis/rbu-journal-of-lisThe pandemic of COVID-19 caused additional infoemergence,which involved the sharing of falseinformation and unsourced health recommendationsamong various media outlets and digital portals (Mheidly& Fares, 2020). Infodemiology is an informationtechnology and epidemiology research platform to tackleurgent public health concerns and policy decision-making.A Meta-Analysis of diachronic discourses with relevantkeywords and sentences under the guidance ofinfodemiological scenarios aims to express thechronological picture as its beginners on the historical timescale (Hu et al., 2020). The primary publication of thewidely cited papers is in the US. The Virology Journal wasthe most successful of the widely quoted papers to bepublished. Between 1973 and 2016, these highly listedpapers were written. The most successful and wellreferencedpapers were published by the University ofHong Kong in Hong Kong. Kwok Yung Yuen of HongKong University, Shenzhen, has written several widelycited papers as the most prolific author (Ram & Nisha,2020). The method of cooperation differs widelyaccording to a particular area and specialty and influencesacademic accomplishment and science correspondence.For this analysis, the collaboration history of knowledgeretrieval is studied for the co-authored papers from theSocial Science Citation Index from 1987 to 1997.According to IR collaboration studies, degrees ofcooperation and collaborative normalizations areinvestigated (Ding et al., 1998).The key results of the analysis concerned are the teamworkbetween two and three authors. The author's output wasnot found to be entirely compatible with Lotka's of n¼2rule. Nevertheless, the distribution of publications invarious papers was observed to be compatible withBradford's Dispersion Principle, with a distribution of 1: n:n2 (Singh et al., 2008). The analysis showed that thefulfillment of Price's Rule, as the theoretical output ofADHD, is subject to exponential growth (correlationcoefficient r = 0.9859, vs. r = 0.9011 after linearadjustment). Methylphenidate (1,251 documents) is themost researched drug. The division into the Bradford areasshall create a nucleus solely inhabited by the Journal of theAmerican Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychology(500 articles). There were 866 newspapers in total used(Lopez-Munoz et al., 2008).The Scatter law of Bradford was used to classify mainnewspapers and examine the author's productivity trend.The study also looked at the publishing form, language,and publishing country. There were identified 20 corejournals and journal articles were the primary modes ofdissemination. In comparison to the law of Lotka, authorswith single published material were more prevalent(73.58%) (Patra & Mishra, 2006). Bradford's law ofscattering was used to identify the core journal thatpublished Indian cancer research literature. The rule wasused to research the productivity trend of the participants.The report also describes the prominent institutions in
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