Scientometric Trends for Coronaviruses and Other Emerging Viral Infections
Dima Kagan, Jacob Moran-Gilad, Michael Fire
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.17.995795
Abstract
COVID-19 is the most rapidly expanding coronavirus outbreak in the past two decades. To provide a swift response to a novel outbreak, prior knowledge from similar outbreaks is essential. Here, we study the volume of research conducted on previous coronavirus outbreaks, specifically SARS and MERS, relative to other infectious diseases by analyzing over 45 million papers from the last 20 years. Our results demonstrate that previous coronavirus outbreaks have been understudied compared to other viruses.
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