This scientometric analysis examines the collaboration patterns in over 166,000 COVID-19 research articles. The study compares COVID-19 research teams to non-COVID-19 counterparts before and during the pandemic, analyzing collaboration using the Collaboration Index (CI), author multidisciplinarity, and team multidisciplinarity. Results indicate that COVID-19 research teams were smaller but more diverse than non-COVID-19 teams. The pandemic significantly increased multidisciplinarity across most fields. The paper also presents methodologies for visualizing multidisciplinary collaboration.
Publisher
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Published On
Oct 19, 2021
Authors
Eoghan Cunningham, Barry Smyth, Derek Greene
Tags
COVID-19
collaboration patterns
scientometric analysis
multidisciplinarity
research teams
pandemic
visualization methodologies
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