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There are not many examples in history when the world scientific thought was able to respond so quickly to a common challenge, which became a coronavirus infection in 2020-2022. During this period, domestic economic researchers published 1615 Russian-language articles in journals, so that a wide range of their views was reflected. The semantic and cluster analysis of keywords and frequencies of references to concepts in the titles of these articles made it possible to identify a number of patterns. The collection of article titles can be considered as a sublimated text reflecting the researchers’ cumulative understanding of the economic processes that took place during the examined period. It was possible to determine a strong correspondence of the frequencies of the used concepts to the distribution according to Zipf's law. This should be interpreted as a reflection of a certain unity of the process of public understanding of both the circumstances of the pandemic and its impact on the economy in various aspects