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How a torrent of COVID science changed research publishing — in seven charts – Nature (Holly Else | December 2020)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Human Research Ethics, Research Integrity on December 25, 2020
Keywords: Analysis, Beneficence, Ethical review, Good practice, Human research ethics, Institutional responsibilities, Journal, Medical research, Merit and integrity, Methodology, Protection for participants, Publication ethics, Research integrity, Research results, Researcher responsibilities

The Linked Original Item was Posted On December 16, 2020

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A flood of coronavirus research swept websites and journals this year. It changed how and what scientists study, a Nature analysis shows.  The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted science in 2020 — and transformed research publishing, show data collated and analysed by Nature.

The obvious question here is whether the disruptions and changes will endure beyond the pandemic, lockdowns and working from home.  Whether the drivers will return to normal, or if we are seeing the start of a new normal.

Around 4% of the world’s research output was devoted to the coronavirus in 2020, according to one database. But 2020 also saw a sharp increase in articles on all subjects being submitted to scientific journals — perhaps because many researchers had to stay at home and focus on writing up papers rather than conducting science.

Submissions to publisher Elsevier’s journals alone were up by around 270,000 — or 58% — between February and May when compared with the same period in 2019, one analysis found1. The increase was even higher for health and medicine titles, at a whopping 92%.

  1. Squazzoni, F. et al. Preprint at SSRN http://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3712813 (2020).

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