Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Jul 12;119(28):e2204074119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2204074119. Epub 2022 Jul 7.
Massive scientific productivity accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluated the citation impact of COVID-19 publications relative to all scientific work published in 2020 to 2021 and assessed the impact on scientist citation profiles. Using Scopus data until August 1, 2021, COVID-19 items accounted for 4% of papers published, 20% of citations received to papers published in 2020 to 2021, and >30% of citations received in 36 of the 174 disciplines of science (up to 79.3% in general and internal medicine). Across science, 98 of the 100 most-cited papers published in 2020 to 2021 were related to COVID-19; 110 scientists received ≥10,000 citations for COVID-19 work, but none received ≥10,000 citations for non-COVID-19 work published in 2020 to 2021. For many scientists, citations to their COVID-19 work already accounted for more than half of their total career citation count. Overall, these data show a strong covidization of research citations across science, with major impact on shaping the citation elite.
大量的科学成果伴随着 COVID-19 大流行出现。我们评估了 COVID-19 出版物相对于 2020 年至 2021 年发表的所有科学工作的引用影响力,并评估了它们对科学家引用档案的影响。使用 Scopus 数据,截至 2021 年 8 月 1 日,COVID-19 项目占发表论文的 4%,占 2020 年至 2021 年发表论文引用量的 20%,在 174 个科学学科中的 36 个学科(高达 79.3%,在一般和内科中)的引用量超过 30%。在整个科学界,2020 年至 2021 年发表的 100 篇最具引用价值的论文中有 98 篇与 COVID-19 相关;有 110 位科学家因 COVID-19 工作获得了 ≥10,000 次引用,但没有一位科学家因 2020 年至 2021 年发表的非 COVID-19 工作获得了 ≥10,000 次引用。对许多科学家来说,他们 COVID-19 工作的引用已经占到了他们总职业引用数的一半以上。总的来说,这些数据表明 COVID-19 对科学研究的引用产生了强烈影响,对塑造引文精英产生了重大影响。