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In recent months the COVID-19 (also known as SARS-CoV-2 and Coronavirus)pandemic has spread throughout the world. In parallel, extensive scholarlyresearch regarding various aspects of the pandemic has been published. In thiswork, we analyse the changes in biomedical publishing patterns due to thepandemic. We study the changes in the volume of publications in both peerreviewed journals and preprint servers, average time to acceptance of paperssubmitted to biomedical journals, international (co-)authorship of these papers(expressed by diversity and volume), and the possible association betweenjournal metrics and said changes. We study these possible changes using twoapproaches: a short-term analysis through which changes during the first sixmonths of the outbreak are examined for both COVID-19 related papers andnon-COVID-19 related papers; and a longitudinal approach through which changesare examined in comparison to the previous four years. Our results show thatthe pandemic has so far had a tremendous effect on all examined accounts ofscholarly publications: A sharp increase in publication volume has beenwitnessed and it can be almost entirely attributed to the pandemic; asignificantly faster mean time to acceptance for COVID-19 papers is apparent,and it has (partially) come at the expense of non-COVID-19 papers; and asignificant reduction in international collaboration for COVID-19 papers hasalso been identified. As the pandemic continues to spread, these changes maycause a slow down in research in non-COVID-19 biomedical fields and bring abouta lower rate of international collaboration.

Publication Patterns' Changes due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A longitudinal and short-term scientometric analysis