Fighting in a Parallel Battlefield: Mapping the Country-Based Scholarly Landscape of Social Science COVID-19 Publications

No single discipline could be spared from the impact of COVID-19, while the importance of social science disciplines has been neglected. Given the significant role in fighting against the pandemic, the research achievements in social science need to be underlined to better cope with the continuous spread of the coronavirus. Therefore, in this study, 1,641 publications (published by July 2020) were analysed by visualizing the country-based research outputs, research influence and international collaborations. The results suggest that the global social science COVID-19 research is dominated by North American, European and Asia-Pacific countries, while international scholarly collaborations are highly geographical-based.