Analysis of the topic COVID-19: approach from the academic social network ResearchGate

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COVID-19, pandemic, scientific production, illness, altimetric indicators, ResearchGate.

Abstract

Introduction: COVID-19 is the research topic that is being worked on and published the most today, since it is a pandemic that has paralyzed the entire world. The increase in scientific production on the disease and the essential role that social scientific communication media are assuming on the Web for the dissemination and visibility of research results, provide the appropriate scenario to measure this scientific activity using altimetric indicators.

Objective: To analyze the behavior of scientific production on the topic COVID-19, based on altimetric indicators, in the academic social network ResearchGate during the period 2019-2021.

Material and Methods: Metric-descriptive research of transversal nature. The sample studied is non-probabilistic and intentional.

Results: Health professionals are those who have obtained the highest academic and social visibility on the platform in the chosen period.

Conclusions: It was found that, both at the author level and at the document level, there is little academic and social visibility within the platform; however, the most visible authors in these aspects have managed to transmit that visibility to the works published in relation to the pandemic.

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Published

2023-11-07

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Sosa Valdés LM, Martínez Prince R, Licea Jiménez I, Licea Puig M. Analysis of the topic COVID-19: approach from the academic social network ResearchGate. Rev haban cienc méd [Internet]. 2023 Nov. 7 [cited 2025 Jul. 1];22(3):e4644. Available from: https://revhabanera.sld.cu/index.php/rhab/article/view/4644

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Bibliometric and Scientometric studies