Tonkins, MichaelMiles, JamieO'Keeffe, ColinJiminez Forero, SoniaGoodacre, Steve2021-02-252021-02-252021-02-12Tonkins, M. et al, 2021. Emergency Medicine Journal COVID-19 monthly top five. Emergency Medicine Journal, 2021 Feb 12.1472-02131472-020510.1136/emermed-2021-211203http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12417/984Following from the successful ‘RCEM weekly top five’ series starting in April 2020, this is the third of a monthly format for EMJ readers. We have undertaken a focused search of the PubMed literature using a standardised COVID-19 search string. Our search between 1 December and 31 December 2020 returned 1183 papers limited to human subjects and English language. We also searched high impact journals for papers of interest. https://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2021/02/11/emermed-2021-211203 This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2021-211203enCOVID-19EducationHigh-impact JournalsLiterature SearchingResearchJournal Article/Review