Open AccessHow did COVID-19 affect medical and cardiology journals? A pandemic in literature
Author(s) -
Andrea Venturelli,
Marco Vitolo,
Alessandro Albini,
Giuseppe Boriani
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of cardiovascular medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.458
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1558-2035
pISSN - 1558-2027
DOI - 10.2459/jcm.0000000000001245
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , pandemic , cardiology , medline , family medicine , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , political science , law
The spreading speed of the COVID-19 pandemic forced the medical community to produce efforts in updating and sharing the evidence about this new disease, trying to preserve the accuracy of the data but at the same time avoiding the potentially harmful delay from discovery to implementation. The aim of our analysis was to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical literature in terms of proportion of COVID-19-related published papers and temporal patterns of publications within a sample of general/internal medicine and cardiology journals.