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Topic modelling-based analysis of COVID-19 vaccine articles published in the preprint server MedRxiv


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1 CSIR-Unit for Research and Development of Information Products, Pune, Maharashtra, India., India
2 Department of Pharmacy Management, Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Science, MAHE, Manipal, Karnataka., India
 

Two thousand one hundred and ninety-eight research publications on COVID-19 vaccines in MedRxiv preprint repository during January 01, 2020 and December 31, 2021 were analyzed for topic modelling with unsupervised inference method. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) method was used to investigate the thematic structure of the preprints. It was observed that the published articles were related to either clinical trials or patient responses to vaccine or modelling for various applications such as infection transmission, vaccine allocation, vaccine hesitancy etc.

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COVID-19, Vaccine, Preprints, LDA, Topic modelling.
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Authors

Nishad Deshpande
CSIR-Unit for Research and Development of Information Products, Pune, Maharashtra, India., India
Virendra Ligade
Department of Pharmacy Management, Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Science, MAHE, Manipal, Karnataka., India
Shabib-Ahmed Shaikh
CSIR-Unit for Research and Development of Information Products, Pune, Maharashtra, India., India
Alok Khode
CSIR-Unit for Research and Development of Information Products, Pune, Maharashtra, India., India

Abstract


Two thousand one hundred and ninety-eight research publications on COVID-19 vaccines in MedRxiv preprint repository during January 01, 2020 and December 31, 2021 were analyzed for topic modelling with unsupervised inference method. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) method was used to investigate the thematic structure of the preprints. It was observed that the published articles were related to either clinical trials or patient responses to vaccine or modelling for various applications such as infection transmission, vaccine allocation, vaccine hesitancy etc.

Keywords


COVID-19, Vaccine, Preprints, LDA, Topic modelling.

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