The influence of Covid-19 on publications in economics: bibliometric evidence from five working paper series

Constantin Bürgi; Klaus Wohlrabe

doi:10.1007/s11192-022-04473-9

The influence of Covid-19 on publications in economics: bibliometric evidence from five working paper series

Scientometrics. 2022;127(9):5175-5189. doi: 10.1007/s11192-022-04473-9. Epub 2022 Aug 12.

Authors

Constantin Bürgi¹, Klaus Wohlrabe²

Affiliations

¹ School of Economics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
² ifo Institute for Economic Research, Poschingerstr. 5, 81679 Munich, Germany.

Abstract

We compare Covid-related working papers in economics to non-Covid-related working papers in four dimensions. Based on five well-known working papers series and data from the RePEc website, we find that Covid papers mainly cover topics in macroeconomics and health, they are written by larger teams than non-Covid papers, are more often downloaded and they receive more citations relative to non-Covid papers.

Keywords: Citations; Corona; Covid; Pandemic.