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                            [datestamp] => 2023-03-21T11:00:54Z
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                                    [title] => The multidisciplinary nature of COVID-19 research
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                                            [0] => Arencibia-Jorge, Ricardo
                                            [1] => García-García, Lourdes
                                            [2] => Galban-Rodriguez, Ernesto
                                            [3] => Carrillo-Calvet, Humberto
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                                    [subject] => Array
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                                            [0] => COVID-19
                                            [1] => multidisciplinarity
                                            [2] => pandemic diseases
                                            [3] => scientometrics
                                            [4] => bibliometric indicators
                                            [5] => scientific production
                                            [6] => citation analysis
                                            [7] => thematic dispersion index
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                                    [description] => Objective. We analyzed the scientific output after COVID-19 and contrasted it with studies published in the aftermath of seven epidemics/pandemics: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Influenza A virus H5N1 and Influenza A virus H1N1 human infections, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), Ebola virus disease, Zika virus disease, and Dengue.
Design/Methodology/Approach. We examined bibliometric measures for COVID-19 and the rest of the studied epidemics/pandemics. Data were extracted from Web of Science, using its journal classification scheme as a proxy to quantify the multidisciplinary coverage of scientific output. We proposed a novel Thematic Dispersion Index (TDI) for the analysis of pandemic early stages. 
Results/Discussion. The literature on the seven epidemics/pandemics before COVID-19 has shown explosive growth of the scientific production and continuous impact during the first three years following each emergence or re-emergence of the specific infectious disease. A subsequent decline was observed with the progressive control of each health emergency. We observed an unprecedented growth in COVID-19 scientific production. TDI measured for COVID-19 (29,4) in just six months, was higher than TDI of the rest (7,5 to 21) during the first three years after epidemic initiation.
Conclusions. COVID-19 literature showed the broadest subject coverage, which is clearly a consequence of its social, economic, and political impact. The proposed indicator (TDI), allowed the study of multidisciplinarity, differentiating the thematic complexity of COVID-19 from the previous seven epidemics/pandemics.
Originality/Value. The multidisciplinary nature and thematic complexity of COVID-19 research were successfully analyzed through a scientometric perspective.
                                    [publisher] => Pro-Metrics
                                    [date] => 2020-12-22
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                                            [2] => Peer-reviewed article
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                                            [0] => https://ijsmc.pro-metrics.org/index.php/i/article/view/29
                                            [1] => 10.47909/ijsmc.13
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                                    [source] => Array
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                                            [0] => Iberoamerican Journal of Science Measurement and Communication; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): Iberoamerican Journal of Science Measurement and Communication; 003
                                            [1] => 2709-3158
                                            [2] => 2709-7595
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                                    [language] => eng
                                    [relation] => https://ijsmc.pro-metrics.org/index.php/i/article/view/29/33
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                                            [0] => Copyright (c) 2020 Ricardo Arencibia-Jorge, Lourdes García-García, Ernesto Galban-Rodriguez, Humberto Carrillo-Calvet
                                            [1] => https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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