Research Article

Iranian COVID-19 Publications in LitCovid: Text Mining and Topic Modeling

Table 1

The topics extracted from the implementation of topic modeling algorithm on Iranian publications on Covid-19 in LitCovid.

LitCovid topicSubtopics based topic modelingKeywords

GeneralTopic1: General1ā€”

MechanismTopic1: CharacteristicsCase, virus, people, smoking, potential, expression, disease, spread, find, level
Topic2: Clinical featuresCell, infection, clinical, virus, case, acute, respiratory, severe, disease, lymphocyte
Topic3: Genomic sequenceSequence, respiratory, virus, phylogenetic, isolate, infection, mutation, strain, cause, acute

TransmissionTopic1: EnvironmentRate, case, temperature, fatality, cluster, increase, spread, attack, correlation, size
Topic2: Different areasTransmission, disease, infection, rate, region, case, outbreak, report, measure, sample
Topic3: ModesCase, transmission, travel, cluster, age, early, global, report, individual, infection

DiagnosisTopic1: InfectionInfection, case, disease, risk, chest, severe, clinical, symptom, evaluate, report
Topic2: Risk factorsMortality, clinical, outcome, risk, disease, diabetes, hospital, age, death, factor
Topic3: SymptomsCase, symptom, age, clinical, mortality, disease, positive, infection, test, confirm

TreatmentTopic1: Clinical features of mortalityClinical, mortality, case, risk, hospital, factor, value, confirm, report, age
Topic2: Clinical features of the diseaseDisease, clinical, case, mortality, outcome, severe, infection, risk, age, rate
Topic3: DrugControl, trial, treatment, clinical, cell, drug, vitamin, receive, level, disease
Topic4: OutcomeTrial, clinical, treatment, outcome, control, intervention, participant, arm, randomization, registration

PreventionTopic1: BehaviorsPandemic, health, disease, care, risk, control, outbreak, dental, infection, intervention
Topic2: ManagementPandemic, hospital, health, stroke, knowledge, disease, management, base, care, infection
Topic3: PolicyPandemic, public, health, people, infection, policy, risk, disease, model, case
Topic4: ControlCase, pandemic, disease, risk, control, spread, outbreak, infection, epidemic, people
Topic5: Other diseasesPandemic, outbreak, health, infection, report, care, trauma, increase, case, review
Topic6: Pandemic statusCase, model, rate, death, spread, pandemic, measure, confirm, mortality, estimate

Case reportTopic1: ChildrenCase, clinical, infection, acute, test, child, report, syndrome, respiratory, neonate
Topic2: New symptomsCase, report, liver, manifestation, infection, symptom, clinical, cutaneous, disease, respiratory
Topic3: PregnantReport, infection, case, old, pregnant woman, chest, treatment, refer, pandemic, hospitalize
Topic4: DeathReport, case, disease, respiratory, acute, novel, rate, death, fetal, severe

ForecastingTopic1: EstimateCase, estimate, model, epidemic, death, predict, confirm, trend, outbreak, base
Topic2: ModelingModel, case, spread, rate, confirm, death, predict, pandemic, prediction, trend
Topic3: EpidemicModel, case, estimate, trend, base, policy, disease, infection, epidemic, prediction
Topic4: SpreadCase, base, pandemic, spread, region, weather, mean, humidity, temperature, estimate