COVID-19 pandemic and the answer of science: a year in review

OLIVEIRA, EDUARDO A.; OLIVEIRA, MARIA CHRISTINA L.; MARTELLI, DANIELLA B.; COLOSIMO, ENRICO ANTÔNIO; SILVA, LUDMILA R.; LANZA, KATHARINA; MARTELLI-JÚNIOR, HERCÍLIO; SIMÕES E SILVA, ANA CRISTINA

doi:10.1590/0001-3765202120210543

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HEALTH SCIENCES • An. Acad. Bras. Ciênc. 93 (4) • 2021 • https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202120210543 linkcopy

COVID-19 pandemic and the answer of science: a year in review

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The world is looking forward to a prompt response by the scientific community in order to overcome the first pandemic of the 21^st century. This study aimed to provide an overview of scientific output on COVID-19 during its first year. We assembled information regarding 60,830 articles related to COVID-19 indexed in the WoS database from January 24 to December 13, 2020. Only 4 countries accounted for about 60% of the articles (USA, China, Italy, and England) and 12 countries accounted for about 95% of the world scientific output on COVID-19 (USA, China, Italy, England, India, Canada, Germany, Spain, Australia, Brazil, Iran, and Turkey). 25 research centers around the world contributed with more than 500 papers on COVID-19. Papers were scattered throughout 6,133 journals, with 12 journals with > 250 articles. 20 articles (0.03%) have already received more than the 1,000 citations. The response of the scientific endeavor to this acute global public health emergency has been fast and robust. The overview provided by the analysis of the scientific response to the pandemic may contribute to further studies aiming to evaluate the impact and changes in the scientific endeavor for the next years in light of the forthcoming new world framework.

Key words
COVID-19; research evaluation; scientific production; science policy

Authors	Country	Journal	Date	Theme	Citations	Mean Citations month
Guan, WJ et al.	China	N Engl J Med	2020/02/29	Clinical	5,095	526
Zhou, FT et al.	China	Lancet	2020/03/15	Clinical	4,335	481
Zhu, N. et al	China	N Engl J Med	2020/03/28	Clinical	4,301	474
Zhou, P. et al	China	Nature	2020/03/02	Clinical	3,303	367
Wu, Z. et al.	China	JAMA	2020/02/25	Clinical	2,518	252
Hoffmann, M. et al	Germany	Cell	2020/04/16	Pathophysiology	2,338	311
Lu, R. et al	China	Lancet	2020/02/22	Genomic	2,169	217
Mehta, P. et al.	UK	Lancet	2020/03/21	Pathophysiology	1,764	207
Xu, Z. et al	China	Lancet Respir Med	2020/05/10	Pathophysiology	1,707	262
Yang, X. et al	China	Lancet Respir Med	2020/05/10	Clinical	1,701	261
van Doremalen, N. et al	USA	N Engl J Med	2020/04/16	Pathophysiology	1,591	198
Gautret, P. et al	France	Int J Antimicrob Agents	2020/07/01	Treatment	1,319	239
Wrapp, D. et al	USA	Science	2020/03/13	Pathophysiology	1,214	134
Zou, L. et al.	China	N Engl J Med	2020/02/20	Pathophysiology	1,165	117
Wu, C.	China	JAMA Internal Med	2020/07/15	Clinical	1,154	192

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