key: cord-1045726-ii204x5a
authors: Martinez-Simon, Antonio; Honorato-Cia, Cristina; Cacho-Asenjo, Elena; Aquerreta, Irene; Panadero-Sanchez, Alfredo; Núñez-Córdoba, Jorge M.
title: COVID-19 publications in anaesthesiology journals: a bibliometric analysis
date: 2021-12-09
journal: Br J Anaesth
DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2021.12.003
sha: a6ef57e690a8e901c975622ea9dd19ccb7b5921a
doc_id: 1045726
cord_uid: ii204x5a

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anaesthesiology journals, and assessing the profile of publications in anaesthesiology journals according to journal impact factor (IF). This study is embedded into the Covid Content Curation Project. This project was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the University of Navarra. Research topic categories were defined following specialized COVID-19 article filters documented in the PubMed User Guide (Supplementary Table 1 publications were available for analysis (Supplementary Fig. 1) .

The cumulative total of COVID-19 publications in anaesthesiology journals was 1476 (8.9%; 95% CI: 8.4, 9.3%). The most frequent research topics of COVID-19 publications in anaesthesiology journals were treatment (n=985 publications, 66.7%) and prevention (n=885 publications, 60.0%) (Supplementary Table 2 p<0.001) in the third quartile and by 33% (95% CI: 4%, 53%; p=0.028) in the fourth quartile, both compared to first quartile.

Case reports and forecasting were the topics that received less attention in anaesthesiology journals. Diagnosis and forecasting topics were quite homogeneously distributed among IF quartiles and no associations were observed between these topics and anaesthesiology journal impact.

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