How Has Covid-19 Affected Published Academic Research? A Content Analysis of Journal Articles Mentioning the Virus
oraz | 18 sie 2021
O artykule
Article Category: Research Paper
Data publikacji: 18 sie 2021
Zakres stron: 1 - 12
Otrzymano: 15 maj 2021
Przyjęty: 21 lip 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2021-0030
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© 2021 Mike Thelwall et al., published by Sciendo
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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Content analysis code book medical category descriptions.
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| Covid-19 epidemiology | Epidemiology of Covid-19, including infection rates, patient demographics, risk factors, surveillance systems, modelling/predicting the spread of infection, transmission routes, patterns of infection, factors associated with mortality. May include some discussion of symptoms. |
| Covid-19 health service provision | Organisation, provision, staff or support of health services to deal with Covid-19 patients. Includes safety precautions in Covid-19 medical settings, and pharmaceutical industry developments. Excludes health-related increases/decreases in incidence (not reporting) due to pandemic conditions. |
| Covid-19 impact on other health services | Changes in uptake or provision of health services for purposes unrelated to Covid-19, such as cancer and surgery, due to Covid-19 healthcare or pandemic safety restrictions. |
| Covid-19 medical treatment | Treatments for patients infected with Covid-19, such as antivirals, plasma transfusion, and nutrition. Includes papers investigating properties of potential treatments. Includes articles discussing both diagnosis and treatment. |
| Covid-19 safety precautions | Methods or equipment to avoid transmission of Covid-19, other than lockdowns in general, including contact tracing, studies of the prevalence of safety measures or risk awareness (including in general medical training/settings), and urban planning. Risk and safety information communication. |
| Covid-19 symptoms | Common and rare symptoms, complications and side-effects of Covid-19 (including conditions “associated with” Covid-19), diagnosed at the time or post mortem, including invisible symptoms (blood changes) and studies of symptom progression over time. |
| Covid-19 vaccines | Development, testing, and rollout of Covid-19 vaccines |
| Covid-19 virology | Properties of the virus, transmission methods, genomics, mutations, receptors, animal origins, animal coronaviruses specifically linked to Covid-19. |
| Covid-19 with another condition | Identification or treatment of other conditions in conjunction with Covid-19 (not caused by Covid-19), including pregnancy; or discussion of other pre-existing conditions shown to exacerbate Covid-19 or to be a risk factor for it. |
Content analysis code book non-medical category descriptions.
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| Context | Something about Covid-19 is relevant to the study or is used as an example or to illustrate a point in the study or explain some of the study results, but the study is not directly or indirectly about Covid-19. |
| Decreased importance due to Covid-19 | The paper implies that the study reported is less important due to Covid-19 (e.g. because lockdown social distancing makes method impossible, or has changed the study context, or limited what was possible to investigate). |
| Increased importance due to Covid-19 | The paper implies that the study reported is more important due to Covid-19 (e.g. because the issue investigated has been exacerbated by it) or has a Covid-19-related possible application, including treatment as a minor point. |
| Pandemic art | Art or culture during the pandemic. |
| Pandemic education | Distance or remote learning as an adaptation to lockdowns or pandemic safety precautions; includes related adaptations to pandemic learning. |
| Pandemic economy | Economic or business (including media and non-medical public services) effects of lockdown or strategies for before/after lockdown; either in general or for specific business sectors; also, bibliometric studies of Covid-19. |
| Pandemic health | Any aspect of public health, including mental health and physical activities, but not happiness or distress, during pandemic safety measures, excluding Covid-19. |
| Pandemic society | Any aspect of public opinion, happiness, distress, work life (except medical workers), remote working, daily life, risk of violence, politics affected by pandemic restrictions. |
| Irrelevant | Covid-19 is irrelevant to the paper despite being mentioned (e.g. a Covid-19 paper is cited as evidence that a method works, although it is not used for Covid-19 in the citing paper). |