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AI InsightConclusion: This bibliometric analysis presents that publications on the COVID-19 vaccine are rapidly changing at a time when exactly the effective vaccines of COVID-19 have not been discovered yet.
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Abstract
Objective: We aimed to evaluate the research and publication trends on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine, and so guide future studies. Materials and Methods: A bibliometric analysis was performed using a VOSviewer visualization methodology. Information about publications Web of Science database outputs, countries, institutions, journals, keywords, and citation counts was retrieved. Results: A total of 929 eligible publications from January 1, 2020, to February 28, 2021, were derived from the WOS database according to the search criteria. Publications were written in nine languages, mainly in English (96.7%). From these results, a total of 300 articles were reached by filtering. The average number of citations was found to be 7.73. The H-index of the articles, which were cited 2320 times in total, was 22. Most of the publications were articles (32.29%) and editorials (28.09%). There were 73 different research areas, mostly in general internal medicine (26.6%) and immunology (19.05%). The United States of America produced the majority of articles (31.32%). Conclusion: This bibliometric analysis presents that publications on the COVID-19 vaccine are rapidly changing at a time when exactly the effective vaccines of COVID-19 have not been discovered yet.