More than 87,000 scientific papers on coronavirus since pandemic
“Nearly all of the scientific community around the world turned its attention to this one issue.” Wagner conducted the analysis with Xiaojing Cai from Zhejiang University in China and Caroline Fry of the University of Hawai’i. The study was published online this month in the journal Scientometrics. The researchers searched for coronavirus-related articles in several scientific databases and found that 4,875 articles were produced on the issue between January and mid-April of 2020. That rose to 44,013 by mid-July and 87,515 by the start of October. Wagner compared research on coronavirus...