A bibliometric analysis and visualisation of research trends in covid-19 and suicide

ABSTRACT

COVID19 is a pandemic caused by SARS COV2. Thus this bibliometric analysis was conducted to understand the active authors, organizations, journals, and countries involved in this research of COVID and suicide. All articles related to COVID-19 and suicide, published in 2020, wasanalyzed using the VOS viewer to develop analysis tables and visualization maps.This article had set the objective to consolidate the literature regarding COVID-19 and suicide;and also to find out the trends related to the same.The most productive author isZhang L having the highest average citations and Mamuna M A is the most active author, having the highest number of publications, citations, and co-authorship linkages.The highly productive country in the research of COVID-19 and suicideis Canada with the highest number of average citations. However, the highly active country in the research domain of COVID-19 and suicide is the UK with the highest number of publications, citations, and co-authorship linkages. Brain Behaviour and Immunity is the most activejournal with the highest number of citations and average citations. Asian Journal of Psychiatry is the journal with the highest number of publications.