Lockdowns fostered greater academic productivity

Study shows Italian researchers were the busiest authors

An analysis of the research output of academics during the Covid-19 lockdowns shows that transmission control measures appear to have had a positive impact on academic productivity.

The research by Flaminio Squazzoni and colleagues from the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the State University of Milan was published in the journal Scientometrics at the end of January. The team also discovered that the pandemic affected submission patterns, especially in non-Western countries, and in Italy, which had stringent lockdown measures.