Phenomenon of Coronavirus Publication Race

Abstract

In the Chapter, we explain the phenomenon of the coronavirus publication race, analyse a number of typical bibliometric articles, which are structured according to the standard principle-presenting ranked lists of publications distributed by countries, journals and institutions, as well as lists of the most cited articles. Twenty-one online platforms were identified, on which the largest number of articles on coronavirus topics were published, of which two samples were identified as of 15 December 2020 (82 articles with the term "COVID-19" in article titles and 63 articles with the term "Coronavirus" in article titles) articles with over 1,000 citations in Elsevier journals and over 500 times on other online platforms. These articles were categorized by authors, countries and institutions. The samples of articles were reduced to a single sample with one hundred and twenty-five articles that did not overlap in two samples, on the basis of which a detailed analysis of the structures of international co-authorship with the identification of thirty-one countries, the authors of which participated in international collaboration on the coronavirus research, was made. For this analysis, a square symmetric matrix of international co-authorship was developed. A content analysis of highly cited publications on SARS-CoV-2 was carried out, revealing overlapping topics, for which the multi-topic factor proposed by us was calculated.

ENT symptoms in acute COVID-19: a narrative review

“…In our original investigation, upper respiratory tract symptoms accounted for 69% of overall symptoms in patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 and were comprised of nasal obstruction, rhinorrhoea, sneezing, ear fullness, sore throat, tearing, neck swelling, hoarseness and dizziness 3 . However, following the phenomenon of the race to publish about coronavirus, there has been an uncontrolled release of poor-quality articles showing the most disparate associations between SARS-CoV-2 infection and symptoms of various types including those of the ENT area 4 , 5 .…”