Abstract
Objective: Bibliometric study that aimed to describe the characteristics of scientific production related to the SARS COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: The terms coronavirus and COVID-19 were used in the data collection that was carried out in May 2020, through the Web of Science (WoS) database. The variables observed were institutions, authors, countries, languages, journals and areas of knowledge. Results: There were 3947 indexes in a period from December 2019 to May 2020. Of the publications 25.91% were from China, Brazil is in 18th place in the ranking of publications. 97.03% of the publications are in the English language, all were original articles, the author who publishes the most is in the United Kingdom. Final Considerations: It is evident that the theme is important for a multidisciplinary health team to improve knowledge and safe practices, reducing hospitalization, hospital costs and morbidity and mortality. The scientific production was higher and growing in the last month, the study also shows the Brazilian scientific involvement with the theme so that there is a progressive growth on the subject in the country.