The 100 Most Influential Manuscripts on COVID-19: A Bibliometric Analysis

Background: Citations are assumed as performance indicators that reflects the quality or impact of publications. Citation analysis is aimed towards finding of highly cited articles in a particular research domain to reflect authorship patterns, country’s productivity, ranking of journals and authors and to highlight advancements and updates in the field. Purpose of current study was to identify and analyze top 100 cited articles in the area of COVID-19 infections and reveal the publication and research trends in the field.Methods: Thorough electronic search of Thomson Reuters and Web of Science citation indexing database was conducted using terms "COVID19," "COVID-19," "Covid-19," or "Covid19". Top 100 highly cited articles were selected and analyzed for components like; number of citations, authorship, year and month of publication, journal, country of origin, institution and article type.Results: Highest number of citations for top 100 articles ranged from 12104 to 558. Majority of the selected top 100 articles were published in between January 2020 to March 2020. Most of the top 100 cited articles were published in Lancet followed by Nature group of journals. China followed by USA were the countries that contributed maximum in terms highly cited articles. Huazhong University of science and technology published highest number of articles in the top 100 list. Majorly basic research articles, review articles and case reports constituted the top 100 list.Conclusions: Current report highlights advances and updates in the field of COVID-19 infections and can serve as a guide for writing citable articles in the mentioned domain.Funding Statement: The study received no financial support.Declaration of Interests: None of the authors has any conflict of interest to declare, or commercial associations for the author.