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India that have the most frequently published cancer
literature (Patra & Bhattacharya, 2005). Bradford's and
Lotka's Law has been used for this study. The
contributions of Indian authors to international journals are
very low. A list of authors who published ten or more
papers between 1967 and 2004 is drawn up and presented.
The number of such authors is 37 (1.35 percent), and the
number of authors with single publications is significant
(74.63 percent) (Eysenbach, 2002).
The findings of a study show that most TEL papers, led by
case studies and general analysis, fall into the category of
research papers. In the bibliography of the references, the
bulk of citations were published in the newspapers and are
accompanied by online sites and books. The study shows
that the total length of papers in some countries is 13,017
pages and that the scattering of contributors is minimal
(Jena et al., 2012). The results showed the largest number
of research papers published in 2013 was 60 (31.08 %),
and the lowest number of papers published in 2009 was 13
(6.73 %). 80 (41.45 %) were single authors, and 4 (2.07
%) were the least recorded authors. As far as the length of
the paper was concerned, most of the paper's length was
11-15 with 70 (36.26 %), and 07 (3.62 %) of the paper
length was 1-5 pages. The total references were found to
be 3243, and most of the references were found in 2013 at
1183 (50.49 %), and fewer references were found in 2008
at 121 (3.73 %) (Anwar & Zhiwei, 2020).
The study explores the over-time increase in Indian AIDS
research products based on PubMed and Web of Science
bibliographical data under the law of Lotka, the
distribution of authorship was investigated. The scattering
law of Bradford was used in the identification of main
newspapers. The study describes involved agencies and
regional distributions of the research results for Indian
Helps. The annual data review indicates that since 1992
literature has increased rapidly (Patra & Chand, 2007).
The study found that the LICs published 796 contributions,
comprising 1.08 percent of the total biomedical research
published by LICs and 0.27 percent of the world's health
communication research. Malawi had the highest number
of publications per GDP, with 32,811 published per billion
US$. Uganda had the largest contribution per population,
with 9,579 publications per million people. Ethiopia
received the highest number of contributions per primary
school enrolment, with a ratio of 2.461 publications per
percent of GDP. The role of health communication in
promoting HIV awareness and prevention has been the
most important (Mheidly & Fares, 2020).
The paper focuses on integrating SNSs into their daily
communication for academics by academic staff
(technological and medical applications). A multi-method
research study was conducted, and it was found that most
users preferred Facebook and ResearchGate for academic
research purposes. Collaborative and peer-to-peer learning
have common benefits from the social network, although
some concerns about privacy and cyber-bullying have
been articulated (Abdullatif et al., 2017). The degree of
infection in their regions and mutual perceptual prejudice
toward COVID19 are not associated positively. The
"COVID-19" and "SARS-CoV-2" official titles have not
de facto been the standard. Still, full official names are
exempted from being the proper contribution to the
resistance of negative perceptual prejudices and collective
behavioral inclinations in pani (Hua & Shaw, 2020).
Research questions
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
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The Scopus database was used to retrieve bibliographic
data using the "Infodemic" keywords available in the title,
abstract, and keyword fields. The period from 2004 to
2020 was selected to gather a wide range of data. The
search query used for retrieving data is as under: Search
query: (TITLE (Infodemic OR Infodemics OR
infodemiology)) OR (AUTHKEY (Infodemic OR
Infodemics OR infodemiology)) OR (TITLE-ABS-KEY
(Infodemic OR Infodemics OR infodemiology)) OR
(Infodemic OR Infodemics OR infodemiology).
A total of 919 data were retrieved dated Jul 14, 2020, and
the duplication was zero. Exclusive type of document:
review, note, editorial material, letter, short survey,
meeting abstract, news item, correction. Document type
included, i.e. (Article OR Review OR Conference Paper
OR Book Chapter OR Book). A total of 919 documents
were found from the Scopus database. After the manual
screening of the records, 675 documents were selected for
the study, and 244 irrelevant documents were excluded.
The total citation accumulated by the article was
considered for the bibliometric analysis. Basic bibliometric
approaches have been used to evaluate annual growth
trends in production, journals, institutes, and authors. The
citation obtained in the year of publication of the papers
was issued.
The impact factor of the journals was taken from the
Journal Citation Report (JCR) of the 2019 edition
(compiled by Clarivate Analytics) and referred to as
IF2019. The Hirsch Index (h-Index) was collected from
the most productive writers and organizations (Hirsch,
2005). The ScientoPy and VOSviewer Viewer have drawn
co-citation networks between productive authors of highly
cited articles.
Data Analysis and Interpretation
Bibliographic data for the study was obtained from the
Scopus database using the keyword "Infodemic" in the
article title, abstract, or keywords. Between 2004–2020,
18140 citations, 675 publications, 634 journals, 2218
authors affiliated with 1106 institutions, and 84 countries
were found. These documents received 18140 citations
published in 961 English and 12 other languages.
Publications and citations trend on Infodemic
research
Table1& Fig.1 show the articles' distribution in the study
by year, the total publication, and the total citations. In