The new coronavirus makes the world recognize that all nations share the same future in the era of globalization. Global cooperation, especially scientific collaboration, is the key to accelerate understanding of the COVID-19 virus and the fight against the pandemic. By visualizing the research cooperation network on COVID-19 as of April 15, 2020, we found that cities and institutes in China played an important role in promoting COVID-19 research cooperation.
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