The increase was even higher for health and medicine titles, at a whopping 92%. Submissions to publisher Elsevier’s journals alone were up by around 270,000 - or 58% - between February and May when compared with the same period in 2019, one analysis found 1. But 2020 also saw a sharp increase in articles on all subjects being submitted to scientific journals - perhaps because many researchers had to stay at home and focus on writing up papers rather than conducting science. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted science in 2020 - and transformed research publishing, show data collated and analysed by Nature.Īround 4% of the world’s research output was devoted to the coronavirus in 2020, according to one database.
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