Machine Learning–Based Approach for Identifying Research Gaps: COVID-19 as a Case Study

Alaa Abd-alrazaq   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Abdulqadir J Nashwan   ^{2 *} , MSc ;   Zubair Shah   ³ , PhD ;   Ahmad Abujaber   ⁴ , PhD ;   Dari Alhuwail   ^{5, 6} , PhD ;   Jens Schneider   ³ , PhD ;   Rawan AlSaad   ¹ , PhD ;   Hazrat Ali   ⁷ , PhD ;   Waleed Alomoush   ⁸ , PhD ;   Arfan Ahmed   ¹ , PhD ;   Sarah Aziz   ¹ , MSc

¹ AI Center for Precision Health, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Doha, Qatar

² Department of Nursing, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

³ Division of Information and Computing Technology, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar

⁴ Nursing Department, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

⁵ Information Science Department, College of Life Sciences, Kuwait University, Kuwait, Kuwait

⁶ Health Informatics Unit, Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait, Kuwait

⁷ Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Sohar University, Sohar, Oman

⁸ School of Information Technology, Skyline University College, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

*these authors contributed equally