Survey on scientific publications related to Covid worldwide shows USP in 16th position.

Worldwide, 168,546 scientific publications on Covid-19 were made this year 2020, according to the records of the Dimensions platform database. Of this total, 4,029 publications are from Brazil, which represents 2.39% of all world production, placing the country in the eleventh position in number of publications on the disease, ahead of countries such as the Netherlands, Switzerland and Japan. Among Brazilian researchers, the contribution of USP is significant, with 729 publications, which represents 18.5% of the entire national production. USP is also the research institution in Brazil with the largest number of publications and the 16th worldwide.

The information is part of a survey conducted by the USP Agency for the Management of Academic Information (AGUIA), at the request of the USP Dean’s Office for Research, based on information from the Dimensions platform. “It is an international database maintained by Digital Science in partnership with Springer Nature”, explains Elisabeth Dudziak, from AGUIA. "It indexes all publications that have the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) of CrossRef (number that identifies digital publications) enabled, with daily updates."

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