Centro Cardiologico Monzino, I.R.C.C.S., Via Parea 4, 20138, Milan, Italy.
Cardiovascular Section, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Aug;37(10):2553-2555. doi: 10.1007/s11606-022-07647-6. Epub 2022 May 23.
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.
译文：冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行继续对医疗保健产生影响。可以预见，大流行对医学研究和文献的影响将出现新一波浪潮。我们关注了属于“医学，普通和内科”Clarivate™类别和“Q1”期刊影响因子四分位数的期刊。我们发现，自 2020 年 1 月以来，这些期刊已发表了 9621 篇有关 COVID-19 的论文。这是以牺牲与 COVID-19 无关的科学论文为代价的，因为大多数期刊并未增加其发表文章的总数。因此，我们的分析可能预示着除临床论文外，与 COVID-19 相关的新的潜在科学浪潮，这可能会在未来几年延迟其他疾病的护理质量的提高。
