Observational studyCritical care explorations2024
COVID-19 Pandemic and Impact on Research Publications in Critical Care.
Observational study in Critical care explorations, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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4 citing papers in PubMed.
- Auditing frontier general-purpose large language models in biomedical tasks: reasoning gains, extraction limits, and benchmark reliability.Research square · 2026Article
- Scientometric analysis of publications in Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma since its inception.Journal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma · 2025Article
- Influence of COVID- 19 pandemic on impact factors of top biomedical journals.Irish journal of medical science · 2025Article
- Academic influencers: Clinical and Translational Science scholars and trainees at the intersection of influential scholarship and public attention.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectivesThe COVID-19 pandemic precipitated a significant transformation of scientific journals. Our aim was to determine how critical care (CC) journals and their impact may have evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hypothesized that the impact, as measured by citations and publications, from the field of CC would increase.
designObservational study of journal publications, citations, and retractions status.
settingAll work was done electronically and retrospectively. SUBJECTS: The top 18 CC journals broadly concerning CC, and the top 5 most productive CC journals on the SCImago list.
interventionsNone. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN
resultsFor the top 18 CC journals and specifically
conclusionsCitation activity across top CC journals underwent a dramatic increase during the COVID-19 pandemic without significant retraction data. These trends suggest that the impact of CC has grown significantly since the onset of COVID-19 while maintaining adherence to a high-quality peer-review process.
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