id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-351512-h4vigeuy Zhang, Lin How scientific research reacts to international public health emergencies: a global analysis of response patterns 2020-06-09 .txt text/plain 7123 347 49 In the present paper, we attempt to characterise, quantify and measure the response of academia to international public health emergencies in a comparative bibliometric study of multiple outbreaks. From our analysis of six infectious disease outbreaks since 2000, including COVID-19, we find that academia always responded quickly to public health emergencies with a sharp increase in the number of publications immediately following the declaration of an outbreak by the WHO. Researches in the fields of virology, infectious diseases and immunology are the most active, and we identified two characteristic patterns in global science distinguishing research in Europe and America that is more focused on public health from that conducted in China and Japan with more emphasis on biomedical research and clinical pharmacy, respectively. From the perspective of countries and world regions, funding agencies in the USA, China, and the UK contributed most to supporting research in response to public health emergencies, as shown in Fig. 11 . ./cache/cord-351512-h4vigeuy.txt ./txt/cord-351512-h4vigeuy.txt