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. 2023 Feb 1;18(2):e0281147. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0281147

Table 3. The number of papers and fraction of total COVID-19 related papers in the COVIDScholar corpus for each discipline in October 2020, which is a good sample of the research landscape in the middle of the pandemic.

Only papers with abstracts are classified and included in final count. A given paper may have any number of discipline labels or no label.

Discipline Paper Count Fraction of Total
Biological and Chemical Sciences 32,722 0.27
Humanities and Social Sciences 21,022 0.17
Medical Sciences 41,063 0.34
Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Computational Studies 17,413 0.14
Public Health 27,304 0.23