In December 2019, the city of Wuhan in Hubei province became the centre of a pneumonia outbreak of a novel coronavirus (CoV), with global implications. The new coronavirus is the seventh known strains of human coronaviruses. Two of the other six are coronaviruses occurred in previous outbreaks with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) (2002-2003) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) (2012 to 2019[ongoing surveillance]). Since the discovery of 2019-nCoV, scholars over the world have made lots of research on coronavirus. Based on the methods of bibliometrics and content analysis, this article reveals the trends of research on coronavirus and analyzes the most focused topics of the studies. The paper is aimed to provide a reference for scholars in disease prevention and spread control.

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