Table 1.
Characteristics of the top 50 cited COVID-19-related publications.
| Journal | Number of publications | Total citations | Number of each publication type | Publication content | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retrospective/case series | Correspondence/letter to the editor*** | Trials* | Review | Forecasting/modeling | Clinical findings | Public health/epidemiology | Transmission | Basic science/genomic characterization | Treatment | Other | |||
| The Lancet | 12 | 20 508 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| New England Journal of Medicine | 8 | 15 177 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Lancet Associated Journals* | 5 | 4167 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| JAMA/JAMA Internal Medicine | 6 | 8432 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Nature/Nature Reviews | 3 | 3986 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents | 2 | 1590 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Science | 2 | 1470 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Others** | 12 | 8519 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| Total | 50 | 63 849 | 21 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 24 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 1 |
*
Lancet associated journals include Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Lancet Infectious Disease and Lancet Global Health.
**
Other journals include American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Annals of Internal Medicine, Bioscience Trends, Eurosurveillance, Intensive Care Medicine, International Journal of Infectious Disease, Journal of Autoimmunity, Journal of Korean Medical Science, Journal of Travel Medicine, Journal of Virology, Science, Radiology.
***
Correspondence/letter to the editor additionally include viewpoints, editorials and comments.