CORD-19: COVID-19 Open Research Papers

50k+ research papers on COVID-19 collected between 2020 and 2021, including metadata like authors, institutions, abstracts.

Use Cases

• Train a topic model on pandemic-related literature (verify after download)
• Analyze author collaboration networks from paper metadata (verify after download)

Strengths

• 50k+ papers provide broad coverage of early pandemic research
• Includes rich metadata like affiliations and abstracts for multi-dimensional analysis

Limitations

• Metadata completeness varies; some records may lack full abstracts or keywords
• Last update date is unknown; may not include papers beyond 2021

Provenance

Source

CORD database

Collection Method

Curated collection from PubMed Central and other sources

Time Range

2020-2021

Geography

Global