In the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Akadémiai Kiadó published nearly 180, closely or loosely related articles. Naturally, most of them belong to Medical and Health Sciences or Biology and Life Sciences. Moreover, there are dozens of articles in Social Sciences and Law, Behavioral Sciences or Business and Economics. The topic appears even in apparently more distant areas of research, such as Materials and Applied Sciences, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Arts and Humanities. We grouped together all these papers into a thematic collection on our AKJournals website.
Obviously, all areas of scientific research have been challenged by the investigation of the reasons, course, treatment, and consequences of the pandemic. In support of these efforts, Akadémiai Kiadó has made freely accessible all articles that are to any extent related to COVID-19. This is a next step after opening our self-published journals during the lockdown and home schooling period in Hungary.