With the global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists from various disciplines responded quickly to this historical public health emergency. The sudden boom of COVID-19 related papers in a short period of time may bring unexpected influence to some commonly used bibliometric indicators. By a large-scale investigation using Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, this brief communication confirms the citation advantage of COVID-19 related papers empirically through the lens of Essential Science Indicators' highly cited paper. More than 8% of COVID-19 related papers published during 2020 and 2021 were selected as Essential Science Indicators highly cited papers, which was much higher than the set global benchmark value of 1%. The citation advantage of COVID-19 related papers for different Web of Science categories/countries/journal impact factor quartiles were also demonstrated. The distortions of COVID-19 related papers' citation advantage to some bibliometric indicators such as journal impact factor were discussed at the end of this brief communication.

翻译：随着COVID-19疫情在全球蔓延，各学科科学家迅速响应这一历史性的公共卫生紧急事件。短期内COVID-19相关论文的突然激增可能对部分常用文献计量指标产生意外影响。本研究通过大规模调查科学引文索引扩展版（Science Citation Index Expanded）和社会科学引文索引（Social Sciences Citation Index）数据库，基于基本科学指标（Essential Science Indicators）的高被引论文视角，实证确认了COVID-19相关论文的引文优势。2020年至2021年间发表的COVID-19相关论文中，超过8%被选为基本科学指标高被引论文，远高于全球设定的1%基准值。研究还展示了COVID-19相关论文在不同Web of Science学科类别、国家或地区以及期刊影响因子四分位数中的引文优势差异。本简报最后讨论了COVID-19相关论文的引文优势对期刊影响因子等部分文献计量指标的扭曲效应。