The importance of effective data sharing and reuse to funders and others supporting research
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Is rapid scientific publication also high quality? Bibliometric analysis of highly disseminated COVID-19 research papers...
Published in Learned publishing : journal of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
The impact of COVID-19 has underlined the need for reliable information to guide clinical practice and policy. This urgency has to be balanced against disruption to journal handling capacity and the continued need to ensure scientific rigour. We examined the reporting quality of highly disseminated COVID-19 research papers using a bibliometric anal...
Over-promotion and caution in abstracts of preprints during the COVID-19 crisis.
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The abstract is known to be a promotional genre where researchers tend to exaggerate the benefit of their research and use a promotional discourse to catch the reader's attention. The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted intensive research and has changed traditional publishing with the massive adoption of preprints by researchers. Our aim is to investig...
COVID-19 Rapid Review cross-publisher initiative: What we have learned and what we are going to do next.
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The global crisis sparked collaboration between publishers and service providers to successfully address an immediate problem and demonstrated the possibility for future partnerships.Encouraging experts to join a reviewer pool and quickly review the preprint and journal submissions, we were able to publish COVID-19 research more quickly.The initiat...
Did anthropause generate a research pause during the pandemic? The experiences of a non-medical journal.
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Contradicting expectations, a non-medical journal received increasing submissions during the pandemic, even though laboratories remained closed.Peer reviewers and handling editors were both more responsive and provided faster turnaround times during 2020.The reasons for increased submission to the journal may have been due to reanalysis of older da...
Evolution of scientific collaboration on COVID-19: A bibliometric analysis.
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This paper considers the pattens of international collaboration by analysing publications on COVID-19 published in the first 6 months of the pandemic. The data set comprised articles on COVID-19 indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (WoS CC) downloaded four times between 1 April 2020 and 1 June 2020. The analysis of 5,827 documents revealed...
Characteristics of Imperial College London's COVID-19 research outputs.
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We identified 651 research outputs on the topic of COVID-19 in the form of preprint, report, journal article, dataset, and software/code published by Imperial College London authors between January to September 2020. We sought to understand the distribution of outputs over time by output type, peer review status, publisher, and open access status. ...
The need for change and the problems of change: Continuity and the 'new normal'.
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Global academic response to COVID-19: Cross-sectional study.
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This study explores the response to COVID-19 from investigators, editors, and publishers and seeks to define challenges during the early stages of the pandemic. A cross-sectional bibliometric review of COVID-19 literature was undertaken between 1 November 2019 and 24 March 2020, along with a comparative review of Middle East respiratory syndrome (M...
Publishing during pandemic: Innovation, collaboration, and change.
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