Evaluation of the Dynamics of Large Scale Covid-19 Related Literature through Bibliometric Analysis from a Mathematical Standpoint

Sarkar, Biplab; Munshi, Anusheel; Ghosh, Bratin; Ganesh, T; Manikandan, A.; Biswal, Subhra Snigdha; Shahid, T.; Bhaskar, Rajagopalan; Sengupta, S.; Chowdhury, Sandipan; Bhattacharya, Jayanta; Gazi, Mahasin; De, Arundhati; George, Kirubha; Ghosh, Tanmoy; Akhtar, Jawed; Mandal, Sourav; Mukherjee, Mukti; Gupta, Rosalima; Roy, Soumya; Jassal, Kanan; Goswami, Suchanda; Ghosh, Suparna; Chatterjee, Prasenjit; Biswas, Litan Naha; Bandyopadhyay, Syamasis; Pradhan, Anirudh; Mohanti, Bidhu Kalyan

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“…Scientists have been extensively mobilized and collaborated more than ever to conduct COVID-19-related research to advance knowledge about the virus and develop tools and strategies for controlling the pandemic (Else, 2020;Haghani & Bliemer, 2020;Liu et al, 2022;Pai, 2020). As a result, there has been an unprecedented surge in the production of COVID-19 papers, with many active researchers contributing and journals speeding up the publication process (Aviv-Reuven & Rosenfeld, 2021;Else, 2020;Horbach, 2020;Riccaboni & Verginer, 2022;Sarkar et al, 2022). As indexed by Scopus, over 700,000 authors contributed 200,000 COVID-19 papers between January 2020 and August 2021 (Ioannidis et al, 2021).…”

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The significant yet short‐term influence of research covidization on journal citation metrics

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2024

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COVID‐19 has emerged as a major research hotspot and trending topic in recent years, leading to increased publications and citations of related papers. While concerns exist about the potential citation boost in journals publishing these papers, the specifics are not fully understood. This study uses a generalized difference‐in‐differences approach to examine the impact of publishing COVID‐19 papers on journal citation metrics in the Health Sciences fields. Findings indicate that journals publishing COVID‐19 papers in 2020 received significantly higher citation premiums due to COVID‐19 in 2020 and continued to benefit from the premium in 2021 in certain fields. In contrast, journals that began publishing COVID‐19 papers in 2021 experienced weaker citation premiums. The citation premiums exhibit some negative spillover effect: Although the publication volume of non‐COVID‐19 papers also surged, these papers experienced insignificant or negative citation gains, even when published in the same journals as COVID‐19 papers. COVID‐19 papers published in high‐impact journals brought higher citation premiums than those in low‐impact journals in most fields, indicating a potential Matthew effect. These citation premiums can affect various citation‐based journal metrics, such as our simulated impact factor and SCImago Journal Rank, to different degrees. Compared to the simulated impact factor, other normalized journal metrics are less influenced by citation premiums. The results highlight a “gold rush” pattern in which early entrants establish their citation advantage in research hotspots and caution against using citation‐based metrics for research assessment.

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The significant yet short‐term influence of research covidization on journal citation metrics

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2024

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“…Scientists have been extensively mobilized to conduct COVID-19-related research to advance knowledge about the virus and develop tools and strategies for controlling the pandemic (2)(3)(4). As a result, there has been an unprecedented surge in the production of COVID-19 papers, with many active researchers contributing (2,(5)(6)(7): As indexed by Scopus, over 700,000 authors contributed 200,000 COVID-19 papers between January 2020 and August 2021 (8). Across disciplines, 98 of the 100 most-cited papers published in 2020-2021 were about COVID-19 (9).…”

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“…Scientists have been extensively mobilized and collaborated more than ever to conduct COVID-19-related research to advance knowledge about the virus and develop tools and strategies for controlling the pandemic (Else, 2020; Haghani & Bliemer, 2020; M. Liu et al, 2022; Pai, 2020). As a result, there has been an unprecedented surge in the production of COVID-19 papers, with many active researchers contributing and journals speeding up the publication process (Aviv-Reuven & Rosenfeld, 2021; Else, 2020; Horbach, 2020; Riccaboni & Verginer, 2022; Sarkar et al, 2022): As indexed by Scopus, over 700,000 authors contributed 200,000 COVID-19 papers between January 2020 and August 2021 (Ioannidis et al, 2021). Across disciplines, 98 of the 100 most-cited papers published in 2020-2021 were about COVID-19 (Ioannidis et al, 2022).…”

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The significant yet short-term influence of research covidization on journal citation metrics

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2023

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COVID-19 has emerged as a significant research hotspot in recent years, leading to a surge in production and citations received by COVID-19 papers. While concerns have been raised about the potential citation boost on journals associated with publishing COVID-19 papers, the extent and mechanisms of such gain remain unclear. This study uses a generalized difference-in-differences approach to examine the impact of publishing COVID-19 papers on journal citations and related metrics in four highly covidized fields. Our results demonstrate that journals starting publishing COVID-19 papers in health sciences fields in 2020 experienced a significant increase in citations compared with other journals. This trend continued in 2021, although to a lesser extent. However, such citation premiums became insignificant for journals starting to publish COVID-19 papers in 2021. In some fields, we also observed that COVID-19 papers increased the citations of non-COVID-19 papers in the same journals, but only for journals starting to publish COVID-19 papers in 2020. Our heterogeneity test indicates that COVID-19 papers published in prestigious journals brought more significant citation premiums to the journals and non-COVID-19 papers in most fields. We finally show that these citation premiums can affect various citation-based journal metrics. Our findings reveal a “gold rush” pattern in which early entrants are more likely to establish their citation advantage in research hotspots and caution against using such metrics to evaluate journal quality.

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Evaluation of the Dynamics of Large Scale Covid-19 Related Literature through Bibliometric Analysis from a Mathematical Standpoint

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The significant yet short‐term influence of research covidization on journal citation metrics

The significant yet short‐term influence of research covidization on journal citation metrics

The significant yet short-term influence of research covidization on journal citation metrics

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