Crowd dynamics research in the era of Covid-19 pandemic: Challenges and opportunities.

ABSTRACT: With the issues of crowd control and physical distancing becoming central to disease prevention measures, one would expect that crowd research should become a focus of attention during the Covid-19 pandemic era. However, I will show, based on a variety of metrics, that not only has this not been the case, but also, the first two years of the pandemic have posed an undisputable setback to the development and growth of crowd science. Without intervention, this could potentially aggravate further and cause a long-lasting recession in this field. This article, in addition to documenting and highlighting this issue, aims to outline potential avenues through which crowd research can reshape itself in the era of Covid-19 pandemic, maintain its pre-pandemic momentum and even further expand the div

SUBMITTER: Haghani M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9095433 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature