Trends of scientific production about Corona Pandemic in the Arab periodicals platforms

Authors

  • Sideq Ben Suliman Head of Administration Department, National Holding Company, Libya
  • Mohamed Ben Musa Assistant Professor, Library & Information Science, Azzaytuna University, Libya

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.70000/cj.2022.66.558

Keywords:

Arab journals, productivity, COVID-19

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the features of the scientific production about the Corona pandemic published during the year 2020 and indexed in four Arab periodicals platforms. The platforms and published studies on the Corona pandemic were surveyed, Microsoft Excel was used for data analysis. The researchers investigated the thematic, linguistic and temporal trends of this production, as well as identifying the most important periodicals that published it, in addition to the features of authorship, the authors' specializations, and the most important institutions they belong to. The most important results were that the number of articles published on the Corona pandemic amounted to 748 articles. the most important topics covered were medicine, economics, and law, respectively. the Arabic language had the largest share of published articles, and the highest publication rate was in the month of December.

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Published

2022-08-31

How to Cite

Ben Suliman, S., & Ben Musa, M. (2022). Trends of scientific production about Corona Pandemic in the Arab periodicals platforms. Cybrarians Journal, (66), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.70000/cj.2022.66.558