{"id":69904,"date":"2021-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2021\/01\/27\/covid-19-paper-is-unmcs-most-cited-of-2020\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T17:42:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T22:42:58","slug":"covid-19-paper-is-unmcs-most-cited-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2021\/01\/27\/covid-19-paper-is-unmcs-most-cited-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 paper is UNMC’s most-cited of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

A paper outlining a new, emerging infectious disease — COVID-19 — was UNMC’s most cited scientific publication of 2020. “The epidemiology and pathogenesis of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak,”<\/a> co-authored by Siddappa Byrareddy, PhD, associate professor and vice chair of research, pharmacology and experimental neuroscience, has been cited more than 1,000 times, and counting.
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That’s not surprising, said Jennifer Larsen, MD, vice chancellor for research. Dr. Byrareddy’s article is a great resource that brought together information other scientists were looking for in 2020, all in one place and easy to read.
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“Almost always,” she said, “review articles and guidelines are the most cited because they appeal to a broad audience.”
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What might we expect to see in a list of most cited research?
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After review articles, “Next comes large clinical trials, of course,” Dr. Larsen continued. “For the same reason. And those show up here, too.”
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Andre Kalil, MD, professor of infectious disease, who headed UNMC’s efforts in the first National Institutes of Health trial to evaluate experimental COVID-19 treatments, focusing on the anti-viral drug remdesivir, shows up twice in the top five.
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“Most seminal basic science isn’t recognized until long after it’s published, at least by citation index,” Dr. Larsen said. “Because anything revolutionary isn’t immediately embraced.”
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But it is informative to see which papers and manuscripts, with UNMC authors and contributors, were most cited by their colleagues across the world in 2020.
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Like a COVID-19 test result, citation numbers are but a snapshot in time, and may be different today than they were when recorded for this story.
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That said, the following are the top five most cited UNMC publications this past year:
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The epidemiology and pathogenesis of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n