Analyse scientométrique du domaine de l'infectiologie de 2000 à 2020
This provides a scientometric overview for researchers and policymakers in infectious diseases, though it is incremental as it applies existing methods to new data.
The study analyzed infectious disease research publications from 2000 to 2020, using a corpus from Medline and Web of Science to characterize top countries and thematic evolutions, noting that Covid-19 publications in 2020 significantly impacted topic maps and country rankings.
Research on infectious diseases constitutes a transversal scientific field. A specific corpus is designed by combining a controlled language (Medline MeSH thesaurus) and the categorization of journals (Web of Science). From this global corpus, the article characterizes the publications from the top 20 countries publishing in the field and evolutions between 2000 and 2020. Topic maps show the research themes within the field of infectious diseases both in the world and in France. The explosion of publications on Covid-19 in 2020 has a quite visible impact on the topic map in infectious diseases and changes the position of some countries in this field of research. The conclusion points to issues for further research as more complete data will become available on the Covid-19 period.