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Overview and Trends on Sleep and COVID-19 Publication Output

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COVID-19 and Sleep: A Global Outlook

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The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic led researchers and scientists from many different fields to generate a surmount amount of data, which eventually was published, becoming available, to both the health professionals and to the society. However, the body of knowledge continued growing in an unprecedented way. A condition of “infodemic” was characterized, referring to the growth in the available information following epidemic patterns. Likewise, the publication output of sleep medicine was subjected to important adaptations, which include the number of articles published, the research methods employed, and the motivations of researchers to publish. This chapter describes the publication output of sleep-related research during the pandemic.

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  1. The University Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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  2. Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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GNP is a shareholder at SleepUp© and founder of P&P Metanálises. ST has no conflicts of interest to disclose. This work was supported by grants from the Associação Fundo de Incentivo à Pesquisa (AFIP), the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), and the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq).

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Pires, G.N., Tufik, S. (2023). Overview and Trends on Sleep and COVID-19 Publication Output. In: BaHammam, A., Pandi-Perumal, S.R., Jahrami, H. (eds) COVID-19 and Sleep: A Global Outlook. Progress in Sleep Research. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0240-8_25

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