id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-282737-xa4ct4lf Müller, Simon M. National Publication Productivity during the COVID-19 Pandemic—A Preliminary Exploratory Analysis of the 30 Countries Most Affected 2020-09-05 .txt text/plain 3286 152 46 Methods: In a cross-sectional, observational, retrospective study we compared and correlated 17 epidemiologic, health care system-related and health-economic factors from medical databases and intergovernmental organisations potentially influencing the COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 publication productivity between 1 January and 30 April 2020 amongst the 30 countries most severely affected by the pandemic. Thus, we compared and correlated factors (Table 1) potentially influencing the COVID-19-related publication productivity between 1 January and 30 April 2020 amongst the 30 countries most severely affected by the pandemic. Our results indicate that the COVID-19 publication rate of the 30 countries most affected by the SARS-Cov2 pandemic by the end of April 2020 correlates positively with epidemiological factors (COVID-19 cases per capita, case fatality rate), health care system-relevant (number of physicians HAQ Index, Global Health Security Index) and economic factors (health care expenditure per capita, gross domestic product (GDP)), and, additionally, with the publication expertise (pre-COVID-19 H-index, COVID-19 trial database). ./cache/cord-282737-xa4ct4lf.txt ./txt/cord-282737-xa4ct4lf.txt