TY - JOUR T1 - Dissemination of research during the first year of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic JF - Journal of Investigative Medicine JO - J Investig Med SP - 1388 LP - 1390 DO - 10.1136/jim-2021-001923 VL - 69 IS - 7 AU - Justin S Brandt AU - Sonal Grover AU - Cande V Ananth Y1 - 2021/10/01 UR - http://hw-f5-jim.highwire.org/content/69/7/1388.abstract N2 - The rapid and effective dissemination of research during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is critical if healthcare providers and public health officials are to remain aware of new developments. Several organizations have collected relevant COVID-19 articles to facilitate data sharing, including the World Health Organization1 and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).2 Yet, in this time of remarkable research productivity and social media influence, how peer-reviewed research disseminates to the global community remains poorly understood.In order to ascertain how published research disseminated during the COVID-19 pandemic, we examined the world’s peer-reviewed literature on COVID-19 through the application of alternative metrics (altmetrics) based on social media engagement and evaluative bibliometrics using citation rates. We utilized almetrics and citation rates to analyze COVID-19 articles indexed in the NIH’s iSearch COVID-19 portfolio2 and the Almetric Explorer3 (study flow chart, figure 1). The iSearch COVID-19 Portfolio contains peer-reviewed COVID-19 articles from PubMed and preprints from several sources. We restricted our analysis to articles and used this dataset to ascertain citation rates. These data were merged by articles’ unique PubMed identification numbers with altmetrics from the Altmetric Explorer, where we ascertained articles’ Almetric Attention Scores (AAS; composite score of social interest that includes mentions in newsfeeds, Twitter, Facebook, and Google, among other sources).4 Figure 1 Study flow chart. WoS, ISI Web of Science.We analyzed COVID-19 articles in the ISI Web of Science (WoS) … ER -