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. 2021 Oct 24;126(12):9405–9429. doi: 10.1007/s11192-021-04172-x

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics of scientific documents in the research fields of COVID-19, COPD and Lung Cancer based on 420 days from April 2020 to June 6th, 2021

Variables Arithmetic Mean Std. Error
COVID-19, documents (Docs) 68,067.61 2,135.79
COPD, documents 3,743.23 74.32
Lung Cancer, documents 25,119,04 504.17
ΔDocs%of COVID-19, daily increment April 2020 to June2021 1.19 0.16
ΔDocs%of COPD, daily increment April 2020 to June2021 0.417 0.024
ΔDocs%of Lung Cancer, daily increment April 2020 to June2021 0.419 0.023
ΔDocs%of COVID-19, daily increment April-July 2020 3.16 0.56
ΔDocs%of COVID-19, daily increment August-December 2020 0.65 0.06
ΔDocs%of COVID-19, daily increment January-June 2021 0.38 0.04

COVID-19 = Coronavirus Disease 2019; COPD = Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease