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大流行的全球传播，各个学科的科学家迅速响应了这一历史性的公共卫生紧急情况。在短时间内COVID-19相关论文的突然激增可能会给一些常用的文献计量指标带来意想不到的影响。通过使用Science Citation Index Expanded和Social Sciences Citation Index进行大规模调查，本文通过基本科学指标高引用论文的视角经验证实了COVID-19相关论文的引用优势。在2020年和2021年发表的COVID-19相关论文中，超过8％的论文被选为基本科学指标高引用论文，这比全球基准值1％要高得多。此外，还展示了COVID-19相关论文在不同Web of Science类别/国家/期刊影响因子四分位数中的引用优势。本文最后讨论了COVID-19相关论文的引用优势对一些文献计量指标（例如期刊影响因子）的扭曲。