Abstract summary 

As a global pandemic, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to a growing number of related research studies being published worldwide. However, there is no study on the bibliometric analysis of these Moroccan studies. This study aims to provide a general overview of COVID-19 studies in Morocco and may provide a direction for hot topics and future research trends.The global literature about COVID-19 published between 2019 and 2022 was scanned in PubMed, the Web of Science collection database, Scopus, and two preprint platforms. 'COVID-19', 'Novel Coronavirus', '2019-nCoV', and 'SARS-CoV-2' were used as the keywords to reach the relevant publications. The VOS viewer was applied to perform the bibliometric analysis of these articles.A total of 987 Moroccan publications on the topic of COVID-19 were retrieved. Of all these publications, 166 (61.9%) were original journal articles, 10 (3.7%) were review articles, 514 (8.38%) were letters and 56 (20.9%) were others, such as case reports, notes, or book chapters. Ten original articles (3.7%) had not yet been peer-reviewed and were retrieved from the preprint servers medRxiv and bioRxiv. The highest number of COVID-19 publications was published by Mohammed V University in Rabat (=45, 16.8%), followed by Hassan II University (=32, 11.9%) and Mohammed VI University of Health Sciences (=29, 10.8%). The open-access format was the predominant publishing model (43.2%) and 92.9% were written in English. The main research lines identified in COVID-19 for Morocco are related to the pandemic's indirect effects: education (11.2%), mental health (6.3%), and the environment (6.3%).Moroccan institutions have made a profound contribution to COVID-19 research than that in other African countries, but lags behind compared to that in Arabic countries.

Authors & Co-authors:  Zoukal Sofia S Hassoune Samira S Nani Samira S

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