A Review of the Scientific Contributions of Nepal on COVID-19.

Bibliometrics COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic SARS-CoV-2

Journal

Current tropical medicine reports
ISSN: 2196-3045
Titre abrégé: Curr Trop Med Rep
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101625249

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2021
Historique:
accepted: 08 07 2021
pubmed: 9 11 2021
medline: 9 11 2021
entrez: 8 11 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

There has been a high influx of publications on the SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 worldwide in the recent few months as very little was known about them. Nepal too had a substantial number of publications on the same, and there was a need to track the most relevant and impactful to the scientific community through bibliometric analysis. A total of 72 publications were analyzed. Bagmati Pradesh (88%) and its district, Kathmandu (77%), was with the most publications. There were no publications from Gandaki and Karnali Province. Most of the publications were in the international medical journals (82%), 53% chose European journals to publish, and 15.27% were related to and published in psychology journals. The majority were original articles (39%) and mostly related to public health (20.83%). 59.7% of the papers had Nepalese as the first author. Most of them were affiliated with Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital and Patan Academy of Health Sciences. Our analysis suggests a need to shift the type of studies from observational studies to studies oriented more towards the therapeutic and clinical trials of available medicines and patient care management. Similarly, the bibliometric analysis gives an overall picture of Nepali medical research's publication status around the globe.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34745841
doi: 10.1007/s40475-021-00247-0
pii: 247
pmc: PMC8558546
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Review

Langues

eng

Pagination

257-264

Informations de copyright

© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Conflict of InterestThe authors declare no competing interests.

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Auteurs

Rupesh Raut (R)

King Edward Medical University, Mayo Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan.

Ranjit Sah (R)

Tribhuvan University Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal.
National Public Health Laboratory, Kathmandu, 44600 Nepal.

Kritika Dixit (K)

Birat Nepal Medical Trust, Biratnagar, Nepal.

Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales (AJ)

Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de Las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda Colombia.
Latin American Network of COVID-19 Research, Pereira, Risaralda Colombia.
Universidad Cientifica del Sur, Lima, Peru.

Zenteno Marco (Z)

Instituto Nacional de Neurología Y Neurocirugía, Mexico City, Mexico.

Kuldeep Dhama (K)

Division of Pathology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, 243122 Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh India.

Yashpal Singh Malik (YS)

Division of Biological Standardization, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh 243122 India.

Ruchi Tiwari (R)

Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Sciences, UP Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhayay Pashu Chikitsa Vigyan Vishwavidyalay Evum Go-Anusandhan Sansthan (DUVASU), Mathura, 281001 India.

D Katterine Bonilla-Aldana (DK)

Latin American Network of COVID-19 Research, Pereira, Risaralda Colombia.
Semillero de Investigación en Zoonosis (SIZOO), Grupo de Investigación BIOECOS, Fundacion Universitaria Autónoma de Las Americas, Pereira, Risralda Colombia.

Angel Lee (A)

Comisión Coordinadora de Institutos Nacionales de Salud Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.

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