The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Scientific Research: an Upcoming New Wave?

The coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 pandemic continues to have an impact on health care. A potential new wave can be foreseen concerning the impact of the pandemic on medical research and literature. We focused our attention on journals belonging to “Medicine, General and Internal” Clarivate™ categor...

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Autores principales: Cosentino, Nicola, Marenzi, Giancarlo, Chiesa, Mattia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2022
Materias:
Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9126692/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35606643
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-022-07647-6
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Sumario:The coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 pandemic continues to have an impact on health care. A potential new wave can be foreseen concerning the impact of the pandemic on medical research and literature. We focused our attention on journals belonging to “Medicine, General and Internal” Clarivate™ category and “Q1” journal impact factor quartile. We found that since January 2020, 9621 papers regarding COVID-19 have been published in these journals. This occurred at the expense of non-COVID-19-related scientific papers as most journals did not increase the total number of their published articles. Thus, our analysis may outlook a new potential scientific wave related to COVID-19, in addition to the clinical ones, possibly delaying the improvement in the quality of care for other diseases in the next years.

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