Table 2.
List of the highly cited articles and metrics.
| Title | Citationa | Journal | Country FA | Country CA | # authors | # Affiliated institutions | Methodology | Objective |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China | 404 | Nature | China | China, Australia | 19 | 6 | Metatranscriptomics | Phylogenetics |
| Genomic characterization of the 2019 novel human-pathogenic coronavirus isolated from a patient with atypical pneumonia after visiting Wuhan | 187 | Emerging Microbes and Infections | China | China | 7 | 1 | Genome sequence analysis | Phylogenetics |
| Preliminary identification of potential vaccine targets for the COVID-19 Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) Based on SARS-CoV Immunological Studies | 67 | Viruses | China | China | 2 | 1 | In silico protein sequences analysis | Phylogenetics |
| Epidemiological, clinical and virological characteristics of 74 cases of coronavirus-infected disease 2019 (COVID-19) with gastrointestinal symptoms | 54 | Gut | China | China | 46 | 1 | Genome sequence analysis | Phylogenetics |
| Identifying SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses in Malayan pangolins | 53 | Nature | China | China, Australia | 29 | 9 | Metagenomics | Phylogenetics |
| RNA based mNGS approach identifies a novel human coronavirus from two individual pneumonia cases in 2019 Wuhan outbreak | 47 | Emerging Microbes and Infections | China | China | 17 | 4 | Transcriptomics | Phylogenetics |
| Genomic variance of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus | 40 | Journal of Medical Virology | Italy | Italy | 2 | 1 | In silico genome and protein sequence analysis | Antivirals |
| Systematic comparison of two animal-to-human transmitted human coronaviruses: SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV | 31 | Viruses | China | China, Saudi Arabia, USA | 8 | 4 | In silico genome sequence analysis | Phylogenetics |
| Emerging novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)—current scenario, evolutionary perspective based on genome analysis and recent developments | 30 | Veterinary Quarterly | India | India, Iran, Thailand | 8 | 4 | In silico genome sequence analysis | Phylogenetics |
| Transcriptomic characteristics of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and peripheral blood mononuclear cells in COVID-19 patients | 22 | Emerging Microbes and Infections | China | China | 19 | 3 | Transcriptomics | Virus-host interaction |
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Citation in Scopus 27 June 2020; FA: first author; CA: Co-authorship.