Table 1.

Chronological list of published articles with multifarious proposed names.

Date (2020)	Articlea	Proposed name
January 18	Cheng et al [79]	Wuhan coronavirus pneumonia
January 20	Parry [80]	China coronavirus
January 21	Nature [81]	Wuhan virus
January 22	Callaway and Cyranoski [82]	China coronavirus
January 22	Liu and Saif [83]	Wuhan coronavirus
January 23	Callaway and Cyranoski [84]	China virus
January 24	Mahase [85]	China coronavirus
January 28	Mahase [86]	China coronavirus
January 29	Parry [87]	China coronavirus
January 31	Callaway [88]	China coronavirus
January 31	Mahase [89]	China coronavirus
January 31	Bassetti et al [90]	Novel Chinese coronavirus
January 31	Ralph et al [47]	Wuhan virus
February 3	Wu et al [77]	WH-Human-1 Coronavirusb
February 4	Parry [91]	China coronavirus
February 5	Jiang et al [92]	PARS-CoVc
February 7	Cyranoski [93]	China coronavirus
February 11	Wang et al [15]	HARS-CoVd
February 11	Coronaviridae Study Group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses [38]	SARS-CoV-2
February 12	Zhou et al [94]	Wuhan novel coronavirus
February 14	Jiang and Shi [95]	TARS-CoVe
February 19	Jiang et al [96]	HCoV-19f
February 19	Goh et al [97]	Wuhan-2019-nCoV
February 19	Kooraki et al [98]	NCIPg
February 26	Xia et al [99]	NCPh

^aThe metadata of the articles were retrieved from PubMed as of February 26, 2020.

^bWH-Human-1 Coronavirus: Wuhan-Human-1 coronavirus.

^cPARS-CoV: pneumonia acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus.

^dHARS-CoV: Han acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus.

^eTARS-CoV: transmissible acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus.

^fHCoV-19: human coronavirus 2019.

^gNCIP: novel coronavirus-infected pneumonia.

^hNCP: novel coronavirus pneumonia.