The rapid, massive growth of COVID-19 authors in the scientific literature

We examined the extent to which the scientific workforce in different fields was engaged in publishing COVID-19-related papers. According to Scopus (data cut, 1 August 2021), 210 183 COVID-19-related publications included 720 801 unique authors, of which 360 005 authors had published at least five f...

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Main Authors: John P. A. Ioannidis, Maia Salholz-Hillel, Kevin W. Boyack, Jeroen Baas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2021-09-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.210389