Was the number of submissions to scholarly journals in Korea affected by the COVID-19 pandemic?

This study investigated whether there was an increase in submissions to scholarly journals Korea according journals’ field and indexation status Scopus or Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) 2020, the year when coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic first spread throughout world. The analysis included 60 with esubmission systems operated by M2PI. Yearly monthly were counted from 2016 2020. yearly proportional change also calculated. In soared for medical indexed Scopus/SCIE (49.5%), corresponding of 36.9% relative expected number submissions. There a surge these March July However, non-medical not did show affected COVID-19 specific subset journals. background spike is required be re-investigated. Editors’ burden should mitigated through editorial board members’ help publishers’ support.