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Author Productivity of COVID-19 Research Output Globally: Testing Lotka's Law

2020-05-20

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COVID-19 is a novel virus with lethal effects on human health, causing respiratory failure and infiltration in the lungs. The present study attempted to examine global publication trends in research associated with COVID-19 and sought the fitness of Lotka's Law, data downloaded from the WHO database (https://www.who.int/). The search term "2019nCoV, COVID -19" was used to retrieve articles published from December...

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10.2139/ssrn.3603889
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