Use of Convalescent Plasma Therapy for COVID-19: A Scientometric Assessment of Global Publications during 2020-21

The study evaluates the global research output (820 records) on “Use of Convalescent Plasma Therapy for COVID-19” on metrics with the aim to understand the current status of research at the global, national, institutional, and individual author level. The study is based on publications and citations data sourced from the Scopus database during 2020-21. The publications and citations data was statistically analyzed on various metrics such as document type, country of publication, collaboration patterns, author affiliation, journal name, and citation patterns. The USA, China and India lead the world ranking of 15 most productive countries in the subject. China, U.K. and Netherlands lead in the ranking of most cited countries. In addition, the study maps key productive institutions, key authors, key source journals, as well as most significant keywords in the subject to visually present their inter-relationships using Biblioshiny and VOSviewer software. This results and findings from the study describe the progress made by the world in this hot area of global interest.