「2019冠狀病毒病」(Coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19)之全球性爆發使其成為新興研究主題,並於2020年起快速出版大量文章。為探討初期出版的COVID-19文章是否有引用COVID-19同主題文章,以及多快被COVID-19同主題文章引用,經分析Web of Science資料庫收錄之2020年1~8月出版之6,955篇COVID-19文章,發現其中有780篇COVID-19文章有被COVID-19同主題文章引用,且本身至少已有一次被引用次數,最高被引用次數達486次。此780篇文章中,71.9%文章於待刊階段即被COVID-19同主題文章引用,平均一篇文章在出版前1.6天獲得COVID-19同主題文章之首次引用,8.8%文章的出版時間晚於引用它們的COVID-19文章,以及發現有引文與被引用文章雙向引用的異狀。
The global outbreak of COVID-19 make COVID-19 become a new heightened research topic and then a huge number of papers has been rapidly published since 2020. To examine whether COVID-19 articles published in the beginning period cite articles on COVID-19 and the length of time when a COVID-19 article is cited by other COVID-19 articles, 6,955 COVID-19 articles published in the first eight months of 2020 and indexed by the database Web of Science were targeted in this study. A total of 780 COVID-19 articles were identified to have obtained at least one citation count from articles on the same topic and the most influential article earned 460 number of citations. Most of 780 COVID-19 articles (71.9%) were cited by other COVID-19 articles during the stage of articles in press. The mean time for a COVID-19 article being first cited by other COVID-19 article was 1.6 days before publication date. Approximately 8.8% COVID-19 articles were published later than COVID-19 articles citing them. In particular, an anomalous cited-citing relationship that two articles cited each other were observed.