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Despite several documented similarities, the coronavirus pandemic is clearly distinct from the 1918 flu pandemic in terms of our exponentially increased, almost instantaneous ability to access\/share information, offering an unprecedented opportunity to visualise rippling effects of global events across space and time. Personal devices provide \u201cbig data\u201d on people\u2019s movement, the environment and economic trends, while access to the unprecedented flurry in scientific publications and media posts provides a measure of the response of the educated world to the crisis. Most bibliometric (co-authorship, co-citation, or bibliographic coupling) analyses ignore the time dimension, but COVID-19 has made it possible to perform a detailed temporal investigation into the pandemic. Here, we report a comprehensive network analysis based on more than 20,000 published documents on viral epidemics, authored by over 75,000 individuals from 140 nations in the past one year of the crisis. Unlike the 1918 flu pandemic, access to published data over the past two decades enabled a comparison of publishing trends between the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and those of the 2003 SARS epidemic to study changes in thematic foci and societal pressures dictating research over the course of a crisis.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e23050626","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,18]],"date-time":"2021-05-18T06:01:33Z","timestamp":1621317693000},"page":"626","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Impact of Coronavirus Outbreaks on Science and Society: Insights from Temporal Bibliometry of SARS and COVID-19"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Ramya","family":"Gupta","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi 110067, India"}]},{"given":"Abhishek","family":"Prasad","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi 110067, India"}]},{"given":"Suresh","family":"Babu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Human Ecology, Ambedkar University Delhi, Delhi 110007, India"}]},{"given":"Gitanjali","family":"Yadav","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi 110067, India"},{"name":"Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB23EA, UK"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Manyika, J., Chui, M., Bisson, P., Woetzel, J., Dobbs, R., Bughin, J., and Aharon, D. 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