How COVID-19 affected academic publishing: a 3-year study of 17 million research papers
This study provides a comprehensive description of the rapid expansion of COVID-19 research, revealing evolving research areas and waxing and waning public interest across different topics. Preprints played an important role in disseminating scientific findings, but the level of coverage of preprinted findings emphasizes the need for guidelines in handling preprint research in media, particularly during a pandemic.
Authors
- Christl Ann Donnelly (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0195-2463)
- Helen Ward (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8238-5036)
- Paul Elliott (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7511-5684)
- Matthew Whitaker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1363-6537)
- Sabrina Rodrigues (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0116-7710)
- Graham Cooke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6475-5056)
- Bérangère Virlon
- Marc Chadeau‐Hyam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8341-5436)
Institutions
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (GB)
- Institut Pasteur (FR)
- Université Paris Cité (FR)
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (GB)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (GB)
- UK Dementia Research Institute (GB)
- Health Data Research UK (GB)
- MRC Centre for Environment and Health
- Imperial College London (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal of Epidemiology
- Published
- 2025-04-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyaf058
- Citations
- 10
- Primary Topic
- Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 41.69
Funders
- Department of Health and Social Care
- European Commission
- Horizon 2020 Framework Programme