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Massive covidization of research citations and the citation elite.
Ioannidis, John P A; Bendavid, Eran; Salholz-Hillel, Maia; Boyack, Kevin W; Baas, Jeroen.
  • Ioannidis JPA; Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
  • Bendavid E; Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
  • Salholz-Hillel M; Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
  • Boyack KW; Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
  • Baas J; Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 119(28): e2204074119, 2022 07 12.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1937499
ABSTRACT
Massive scientific productivity accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluated the citation impact of COVID-19 publications relative to all scientific work published in 2020 to 2021 and assessed the impact on scientist citation profiles. Using Scopus data until August 1, 2021, COVID-19 items accounted for 4% of papers published, 20% of citations received to papers published in 2020 to 2021, and >30% of citations received in 36 of the 174 disciplines of science (up to 79.3% in general and internal medicine). Across science, 98 of the 100 most-cited papers published in 2020 to 2021 were related to COVID-19; 110 scientists received ≥10,000 citations for COVID-19 work, but none received ≥10,000 citations for non-COVID-19 work published in 2020 to 2021. For many scientists, citations to their COVID-19 work already accounted for more than half of their total career citation count. Overall, these data show a strong covidization of research citations across science, with major impact on shaping the citation elite.
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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Periodicals as Topic / Pandemics / COVID-19 Type of study: Experimental Studies Limits: Humans Language: English Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Year: 2022 Document Type: Article

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