Impact Factor polarization during the COVID-19 pandemic

• DOI: 10.55835/6442d8170f5efe988a0e18fc
• Publication Date: 2023-05-19T20:38:18Z
• Authors: Taekho You; Jinseo Park; June Young Lee; Jinhyuk Yun
• Keywords: Pandemic; Impact factor; 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak; Web of science

The COVID-19-related research field has emerged with a number of papers and citations in very short time period. Journals published works have increased their impact factor (IF), which reflects the attention on COVID-19. With publications Web Science, we found that IF journals but more benefits were given to high journals. Highly cited distributed This increases inequality category. In conclusion, our findings imply is vulnerable external events, therefore it supports warn use quantitative indicators assessment.