Study on the impact and attention of cover papers for PLOS journals: Evidence from propensity score matching

• Xiaoqing Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Library, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

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• Li Liu,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Library, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

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• Weichao Li,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Library, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

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• Meiyuan Xing ,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zyt12345@zju.edu.cn (MX); lixiuyang@zju.edu.cn (XL)

  Affiliation Library, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

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• Xiuyang Li

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zyt12345@zju.edu.cn (MX); lixiuyang@zju.edu.cn (XL)

  Affiliation Department of Big Data in Health Science, and Center for Clinical Big Data and Statistics, The Second Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1460-9995

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