The scientific literature on Coronaviruses, COVID-19 and its associated safety-related research dimensions: A scientometric analysis and scoping review
The scientific literature on Coronaviruses, COVID-19 and its associated safety-related research dimensions: A scientometric analysis and scoping review
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ssci.2020.104806
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发表时间：
2020-09-01
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影响因子：
6.1
通讯作者：
Li, Jie
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作者：
Haghani, Milad;Bliemer, Michiel C. J.;Li, Jie
COVID-19全球大流行在爆发后迅速产生了大量研究。在短短几个月内，科学文献中已经出现了一千多项关于这一主题的研究。在这篇简短的综述中，我们分析了宏观层面上这些研究的文献计量学方面，以及那些解决冠状病毒的一般。此外，通过对COVID-19文献的范围分析，我们确定了这些研究迄今为止所解决的主要安全相关方面。我们的研究结果表明，在各个研究领域，除了医疗和临床方面，如疫苗和治疗的安全性，与病人运输安全，医疗保健专业人员的职业安全，实验室和设施的生物安全，社会安全，食品安全，特别是精神上的/心理健康和家庭安全迄今为止吸引了科学界对COVID-19大流行的最大关注。我们的分析还揭示了这一全球卫生紧急事件引起的各种潜在的重大安全问题，这些问题目前只引起了有限的科学关注，但可能需要更多的关注。其中包括网络安全、经济安全和供应链安全等问题。这些研究结果突出表明，为什么从学术研究的角度来看，需要一个整体的跨学科方法和集体的科学努力，以帮助理解和减轻这场危机的各种安全影响，其影响远远超出了生物医学风险。对COVID-19危机的这种全面的安全科学理解还有助于更好地为未来的大流行做好准备。
The COVID-19 global pandemic has generated an abundance of research quickly following the outbreak. Within only a few months, more than a thousand studies on this topic have already appeared in the scientific literature. In this short review, we analyse the bibliometric aspects of these studies on a macro level, as well as those addressing Coronaviruses in general. Furthermore, through a scoping analysis of the literature on COVID-19, we identify the main safety-related dimensions that these studies have thus far addressed. Our findings show that across various research domains, and apart from the medical and clinical aspects such as the safety of vaccines and treatments, issues related to patient transport safety, occupational safety of healthcare professionals, biosafety of laboratories and facilities, social safety, food safety, and particularly mental/psychological health and domestic safety have thus far attracted most attention of the scientific community in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our analysis also uncovers various potentially significant safety problems caused by this global health emergency which currently have attracted only limited scientific focus but may warrant more attention. These include matters such as cyber safety, economic safety, and supply-chain safety. These findings highlight why, from an academic research perspective, a holistic interdisciplinary approach and a collective scientific effort is required to help understand and mitigate the various safety impacts of this crisis whose implications reach far beyond the bio-medical risks. Such holistic safety-scientific understanding of the COVID-19 crisis can furthermore be instrumental to be better prepared for a future pandemic.