Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Biomedical Publications and Their Citation Frequency.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in enormous related publications. However, the citation frequency of these documents and their influence on the journal impact factor (JIF) are not well examined. We aimed to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on biomedical research publications and their citation frequency.

Methods

We searched publications on biomedical research in the Web of Science using the search terms "COVID-19," "SARS-Cov-2," "2019 corona*," "corona virus disease 2019," "coronavirus disease 2019," "novel coronavirus infection" and "2019-ncov." The top 200 journals were defined as those with a higher number of COVID-19 publications than other journals in 2020. The COVID-19 impact ratio was calculated as the ratio of the average numbe

SUBMITTER: Park S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9577356 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature