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Introduction
The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) novel
pandemic has now exceeded a million documented cases
globally. The pandemic has forced unprecedented social
distancing measures and the cancelation of non-essential
services. COVID-19, caused by the coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) viral pathogen extreme acute respiratory
syndrome, has permeated populations at unprecedented
levels. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced
a pandemic only a few months after the disease was first
reported in December 2019. But before that, the WHO had
warned the public of an "infodemic," described as
"overabundance of information some accurate and some
not (Gazendam et al., 2020)."
Further, WHO is leading efforts to slow the spread of
coronavirus disease (COVID-19) by 2019. But a global
information epidemic that spreads rapidly through social
media platforms and other outlets poses a serious public
health problem.
"We're not just fighting an epidemic; we're fighting an
infodemic," said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus at the Munich Security Conference on Feb
15, 2020. After the World Health Organization's declared
COVID-19 as an International Public Health Emergency
(PHEIC), The WHO Information Network (EPI-WIN) has
been launched as a new information platform. The aim
was 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 or
misinformation outbreaks are almost as old as the World
Wide Web (Eysenbach, 2020). The word infodemic has
been devised to outline the perils of misinformation
phenomena during the management of virus outbreaks
since it could even speed up the epidemic process by
influencing and fragmenting social response (Cinelli et al.,
2020; Kim et al., 2019). As the WHO calls it, Infodemics
is a keyword where different stakeholders' participation
and stricter regulations are needed to reduce the impact of
fake news on this information age and social media.
Although different countries will need different
approaches, focusing on their humanitarian nature and
addressing Infodemic issues are the two key factors for
future global mitigation efforts (Hua & Shaw, 2020). The
distribution of knowledge will affect human behavior and
alter the efficacy of government countermeasures. Despite
this respect, the models for forecasting the transmission of
the virus are beginning to consider the behavioral reaction
of the community concerning public health initiatives and
the connectivity mechanisms behind the ingestion of
information (Cinelli et al., 2020).
Such a study is often carried out by counting references
cited by many researchers in their papers (Hussain &
Fatima, 2011). Guide on documentary effect and growing
exposure for knowledge on bibliometrics used to
determine the efficiency of a study (Osareh, 1996).
Bibliometrics connotes the science of measurement about
books or documents. In a sense, information science is an
extension of library science or an extension of reference
services (Hussain, 2017). Traditionally, it relates to the
quantitative measurement of documentary materials. Many
research areas use bibliometric methods to study the
impact of their field, the impact of several scientists, the
impact of a specific paper, or to determine specifically
impactful papers within a certain field of research. In this
context, researchers conducted a study mapping output of
the scientific literature on Infodemic research: A Scopusbased
analysis (2004-2020) (Hussain & Fatima, 2011).
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The pandemic of COVID-19 caused additional infoemergence,
which involved the sharing of false
information and unsourced health recommendations
among various media outlets and digital portals (Mheidly
& Fares, 2020). Infodemiology is an information
technology and epidemiology research platform to tackle
urgent public health concerns and policy decision-making.
A Meta-Analysis of diachronic discourses with relevant
keywords and sentences under the guidance of
infodemiological scenarios aims to express the
chronological picture as its beginners on the historical time
scale (Hu et al., 2020). The primary publication of the
widely cited papers is in the US. The Virology Journal was
the most successful of the widely quoted papers to be
published. Between 1973 and 2016, these highly listed
papers were written. The most successful and wellreferenced
papers were published by the University of
Hong Kong in Hong Kong. Kwok Yung Yuen of Hong
Kong University, Shenzhen, has written several widely
cited papers as the most prolific author (Ram & Nisha,
2020). The method of cooperation differs widely
according to a particular area and specialty and influences
academic accomplishment and science correspondence.
For this analysis, the collaboration history of knowledge
retrieval is studied for the co-authored papers from the
Social Science Citation Index from 1987 to 1997.
According to IR collaboration studies, degrees of
cooperation and collaborative normalizations are
investigated (Ding et al., 1998).
The key results of the analysis concerned are the teamwork
between two and three authors. The author's output was
not found to be entirely compatible with Lotka's of n¼2
rule. Nevertheless, the distribution of publications in
various papers was observed to be compatible with
Bradford's Dispersion Principle, with a distribution of 1: n:
n2 (Singh et al., 2008). The analysis showed that the
fulfillment of Price's Rule, as the theoretical output of
ADHD, is subject to exponential growth (correlation
coefficient r = 0.9859, vs. r = 0.9011 after linear
adjustment). Methylphenidate (1,251 documents) is the
most researched drug. The division into the Bradford areas
shall create a nucleus solely inhabited by the Journal of the
American 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 main
newspapers and examine the author's productivity trend.
The study also looked at the publishing form, language,
and publishing country. There were identified 20 core
journals and journal articles were the primary modes of
dissemination. In comparison to the law of Lotka, authors
with single published material were more prevalent
(73.58%) (Patra & Mishra, 2006). Bradford's law of
scattering was used to identify the core journal that
published Indian cancer research literature. The rule was
used to research the productivity trend of the participants.
The report also describes the prominent institutions in