| Summary: | The openness and resilience of the global research placed new terms in the post-pandemic academic world.
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, a wide variety of scientific articles and research literature have been published in a
short period. COVID-19 related research papers in the social sciences focused on the impact of the new disease on
social, behavioral or economic outcomes.
This paper aimed to explore and understand what the impact and which topics are covered in the papers about
COVID-19 in Romanian social sciences ISI journals. As such, the approach highlights that performing the query by the
term “covid” in seven Romanian journals indexed in the social sciences ISI database, Amfiteatru Economic registered
the highest impact in terms of the number of citations per article. Moreover, most of the papers covering topics on
COVID-19 were published in 2021, compared to the previous and current year. The findings also show that journals
with a higher AIS and IF have a higher share of cited articles. Results presented in this study, identify as well, the word
cloud diagrams for the covered topics in the title of the papers. In such regard, the most frequent words in the corpus
made of titles of cited papers are teleworking, workaholism. For the uncited papers, the results suggest that more
general terms are frequent
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