Massive covidization of research citations and the citation elite

Author:

Ioannidis John P. A.12345ORCID,Bendavid Eran1ORCID,Salholz-Hillel Maia6ORCID,Boyack Kevin W.7,Baas Jeroen8

Affiliation:

1. Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305

2. Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305

3. Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305

4. Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305

5. Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305

6. Meta-Research Innovation Center Berlin, QUEST Center for Responsible Research, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité, 10178 Berlin, Germany

7. SciTech Strategies, Inc., Albuquerque, NM 87122

8. Research Intelligence, Elsevier B.V., 1043 NX Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Abstract

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.

Publisher

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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