Research on Academic Discourse Power of Scientific Collaboration on COVID-19 Pandemic

ABSTRACT

The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic at the beginning of 2020 poses a significant threat to the health and safety of people worldwide. Given the speed and scope of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries around the world have carried out scientific collaboration in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper divides academic discourse power into academic discourse right and academic discourse impact. The number of published papers reflects the discourse right, and the number of cites reflects the academic discourse impact. The visualization analysis of research papers from 2019 to 2020 describes the worldwide scientific collaboration on COVID-19, and the academic discourse power of authors, institutions, and countries can be studied from the perspective of scientific collaboration. We analyze the scientific collaboration of 27,851 papers related to COVID-19 published during 2019-2020 from the perspectives of authors, institutions, and countries by using HistCite and VosViewer. Pearson correlation analysis is used to study the correlation between scientific collaboration, the number of published papers, and the number of cites. Furthermore, we find that scientific collaboration positively correlates with academic discourse right and academic discourse impact. Based on analysis of author collaboration, institutional collaboration and country collaboration, it was concluded that China has the highest total cites, reflecting its high academic discourse impact during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the USA has the highest number of international collaborators and the highest total number of published papers, reflecting its high discourse right during the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of cites and the number of published papers are significantly positively correlated with the number of collaborators in Pearson correlation of author collaboration, institutional collaboration and country collaboration.This study has presented the global collaboration on the research of COVID-19. We compared academic discourse right and academic discourse impact across different levels of authors, institutions, and countries, concluding that academic discourse right and academic discourse impact are significantly positively correlated with the number of collaborators. © 2022 ACM.