Document Type : Original Research Manuscripts

Authors

1 Ph.D. candidate of Knowledge and Information Science-Knowledge Management, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Knowledge and Information Science, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran.

3 Master of Knowledge and Information Science, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.

4 Ph.D. Student, Information science and Knowledge Studies, Information & Knowledge retrieval, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the scientific production of artificial intelligence in the management and crisis of Covid 19. It is of the scientometric type which has been done by co-occurrence analysis of words. The research population consists of 2,816 documents in the field of "artificial intelligence during the Covid-19 pandemic" indexed in the Scopus database. VOSviewer software has been used to draw scientific maps. A total of 2816 documents in the field of artificial intelligence and corona pandemic have been indexed by researchers all over the world in the Scopus database, of which 64.5% were in the form of scientific research articles. 18% of scientific products are related to medicine and 16.9% are related to computer science. The United States, China, and India are ranked first to third respectively. Iran is also ranked 17th out of 20 countries active in the field of artificial intelligence and Covid-19 such as Taiwan, Malaysia, South Korea, and Macau. Active authors in this field are Chou k.c, Hassanien A.E, and Ivano. D. The highest production in this field belongs to the United States, China, and India, respectively.  The United States and China, as prominent and successful examples of the use of artificial intelligence in the management of Covid-19 disease, can be a model for other countries in overcoming this crisis.

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