Bibliometric Analysis of Scientific Production on COVID-19 in Colombia

Abstract

Caceres-Ramirez C, Riano-Duarte AK, Lopez-Prada SY, Ricaurte-Varela EA, Lora-Mantilla AJ, Villabona-Florez SJ and Camacho-Lopez PA

Objective: To conduct a bibliometric analysis to describe the results of research on COVID-19 in Colombia.

Materials and methods: We included articles related to COVID-19 in Colombia, between January 2020 and August 2022, indexed in the Scopus database. Articles such as reviews, notes, errata, editorials, letters to the editor, surveys, doctoral theses, master's these and other non-scientific documents were excluded. The bibliometric indicators of production, visibility, impact and collaboration were analyzed.

Results: This is the first bibliometric analysis of the literature on COVID-19 in Colombia. We found an exponential increase in scientific production since the beginning of the pandemic, mostly of journal articles, in the area of health, written mainly by Colombian authors, with great international collaboration, and published in national journals and a few international journals with high visibility.

Conclusions: The imperative need to respond to the questions generated by the arrival of a pandemic of the magnitude such as that of COVID-19, represented an impulse for Colombian authors from different areas of knowledge, mainly health, to publish scientific articles in an accelerated way. This generates international recognition and visibility by contributing with the necessary evidence to impact the mitigation of the pandemic.

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