More Than 87,000 Scientific Papers Already Published on COVID-19

MONDAY, March 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The world's researchers have worked at a breakneck pace during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Through October, more than 87,000 papers about the new coronavirus were published worldwide. That's a remarkable number even given the significance of the pandemic, according to the researchers who tallied them all up.

"It is an astonishing number of publications -- it may be unprecedented in the history of science," said study co-author Caroline Wagner, an associate professor of public affairs at Ohio State University.

"Nearly all of the scientific community around the world turned its attention to this one issue," she noted in a university news release.