Crisis and the Trajectory of Science: Evidence from the 2014 Ebola Outbreak

Fry, Caroline Viola

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“…Italy, UK, India, and Spain were slower to begin publishing but became more prolific through 2020, and particularly so in the final quarter. Fig 3 shows the rapid growth of monthly publications for selected countries, which also tracks with the trend in national COVID-19 cases; this finding is similar to one found in the 2014 West African Ebola epidemic [ 9 ].…”

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“…Prior research into collaboration around viral disease events found that, during the 2014 West African Ebola epidemic, collaboration grew between scientists from scientifically advanced nations and the most affected nations [ 9 ], suggesting that connections were made based upon disease location. Ebola outbreaks brought in researchers from scientifically advanced nations to work with local researchers on specific events.…”

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One-year in: COVID-19 research at the international level in CORD-19 data

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The appearance of a novel coronavirus in late 2019 radically changed the community of researchers working on coronaviruses since the 2002 SARS epidemic. In 2020, coronavirus-related publications grew by 20 times over the previous two years, with 130,000 more researchers publishing on related topics. The United States, the United Kingdom and China led dozens of nations working on coronavirus prior to the pandemic, but leadership consolidated among these three nations in 2020, which collectively accounted for 50% of all papers, garnering well more than 60% of citations. China took an early lead on COVID-19 research, but dropped rapidly in production and international participation through the year. Europe showed an opposite pattern, beginning slowly in publications but growing in contributions during the year. The share of internationally collaborative publications dropped from pre-pandemic rates; single-authored publications grew. For all nations, including China, the number of publications about COVID track closely with the outbreak of COVID-19 cases. Lower-income nations participate very little in COVID-19 research in 2020. Topic maps of internationally collaborative work show the rise of patient care and public health clusters—two topics that were largely absent from coronavirus research in the two years prior to 2020. Findings are consistent with global science as a self-organizing system operating on a reputation-based dynamic.

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“…Scientific collaboration was expected to increase because of the urgency to generate effective vaccines, the high‐risk investment in anti‐pandemic products by individual nations, and resources constraints for research during pandemics (Gates, 2020; Lee et al, 2020). Focusing on the 2014 West African Ebola epidemic, Fry (2021) found increasing collaboration between the most affected countries and developed countries. The author attributed growing international collaboration to the need of sharing expertise, knowledge, data, and other resources between local scientists and foreign scientists.…”

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Pandemics are catalysts of scientific novelty: Evidence from COVID‐19

Liu

Chen

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Scientific novelty drives the efforts to invent new vaccines and solutions during the pandemic. First-time collaboration and international collaboration are two pivotal channels to expand teams' search activities for a broader scope of resources required to address the global challenge, which might facilitate the generation of novel ideas. Our analysis of 98,981 coronavirus papers suggests that scientific novelty measured by the BioBERT model that is pretrained on 29 million PubMed articles, and first-time collaboration increased after the outbreak of COVID-19, and international collaboration witnessed a sudden decrease. During COVID-19, papers with more first-time collaboration were found to be more novel and international collaboration did not hamper novelty as it had done in the normal periods. The findings suggest the necessity of reaching out for distant resources and the importance of maintaining a collaborative scientific community beyond nationalism during a pandemic.

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The Price of Mistrust: The Impact of a Medical Ethics Scandal on Scientific Capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Fry,

Tran

2024

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Crisis and the Trajectory of Science: Evidence from the 2014 Ebola Outbreak

Cited by 3 publications

References 32 publications

One-year in: COVID-19 research at the international level in CORD-19 data

One-year in: COVID-19 research at the international level in CORD-19 data

Pandemics are catalysts of scientific novelty: Evidence from COVID‐19

The Price of Mistrust: The Impact of a Medical Ethics Scandal on Scientific Capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa

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