How COVID-19 Affected the Journal Impact Factor of High Impact Medical Journals: Bibliometric Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Journal impact factor (IF) is the leading method of scholarly assessment in today's research world, influencing where scholars submit their research and where funders distribute their resources. COVID-19, one of the most serious health crises, resulted in an unprecedented surge of publications across all areas of knowledge. An important question is whether COVID-19 affected the gold standard of scholarly assessment.

Objective

In this paper, we aimed to comprehensively compare the productivity trends of COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 literature as well as track their evolution and scholarly impact across 3 consecutive calendar years.

Methods

We took as an example 6 high-impact medical journals (Annals of Internal Medicine [Annals], The British Medical Journal [Th

SUBMITTER: Delardas O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9778719 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature