  The paper explores and analyses the trend of world literature on "Coronavirus
Disease" in terms of the output of research publications as indexed in the
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) of Web of Science during the period
from 2011 to 2020. The study found that 6071 research records have been
published on Coronavirus Disease till March 20, 2020. The various scientometric
components of the research records published in the study period were studied.
The study reveals the various aspects of Coronavirus Disease literature such as
year wise distribution, relative growth rate, doubling time of literature,
geographical wise, organization wise, language wise, form wise , most prolific
authors, and source wise. The highest number of articles was published in the
year 2019, while lowest numbers of research article were reported in the year
2020. Further, the relative growth rate is gradually increases and on the other
hand doubling time decreases. Most of the research publications are published
in English language and most of the publications published in the form of
research articles. USA is the highest contributor to the field of Coronavirus
Disease literature.
