How is pandemic perceived in China? A case study of COVID-19

Abstract

The corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has evolved into a global pandemic in the last two years, inevitably, also exerting a complex impact on society, economy, and academic research. Consequently, information management research and practice have also changed under the global health challenges (Barnes, 2020). Compared with other publications, especially in biomedical research, papers related COVID-19 sharply increased, and their acceptance took less time, whereas international collaboration significantly reduced (Aviv-Reuven & Rosenfeld, 2021). Based on the perspective of informatics, several scientomet-