Background: The currently prevailing global threat of COVID-19 caused the publication numbers on coronaviruses to explode The awareness of the scientific and public community is enormous But what about the sense of all these undertakings and what can be learned about the future for a better understanding? These questions were answered with established bibliometric analyses of the time until the avalanche of publications unfolded
Coronavirus: an insight into global research until outbreak of COVID-19 and its implications for the future. (Research Theme: COVID-19 pandemic.)