“Nearly all of the scientific community around the world turned its attention to this one issue.”
Wagner conducted the analysis with Xiaojing Cai from Zhejiang University in China and Caroline Fry of the University of Hawai’i. The study was published online this month in the journal Scientometrics.
The researchers searched for coronavirus-related articles in several scientific databases and found that 4,875 articles were produced on the issue between January and mid-April of 2020. That rose to 44,013 by mid-July and 87,515 by the start of October.
Wagner compared research on coronavirus to the attention given to nanoscale science, which was one of the hottest topics in science during the 1990s.
More Than 87,000 Scientific Papers on Coronavirus Published So Far
Amid the yearlong coronavirus pandemic, scientists and researchers worldwide indeed have been working at breakneck speed.
Amid the yearlong coronavirus pandemic, scientists and researchers worldwide indeed have been working at breakneck speed.
A new analysis has revealed that through October last year, more than eighty-seven thousand scientific papers about the novel coronavirus were published globally.
“It is an astonishing number of publications it may be unprecedented in the history of science,” Caroline Wagner, co-author of the study and associate professor in the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University, said in a statement.
Over 87,000 research papers published on Covid-19 by October 2020: Analysis
February 25, 2021
For the analysis, the researchers looked for coronavirus-related articles in several scientific databases
The coronavirus pandemic has invigorated researchers and scholars around the world as they try to wrap their minds around the virulent virus. A new analysis showed that more than 87,000 papers have been published on coronavirus between the inception of the pandemic and October 2020.
“It is an astonishing number of publications - it may be unprecedented in the history of science,” said Caroline Wagner, co-author of the study and associate professor in the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University.
Scientists from around the world have published more than 87,000 papers about coronavirus between the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and October 2020, a new analysis shows.
Even given the importance of the pandemic, researchers were surprised by the huge number of studies and other papers that scientists produced on the subject in such a short time.
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