An alarming retraction rate for scientific publications on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

NSL Yeo-Teh, BL Tang - Accountability in research, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The ongoing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic has
triggered a flurry of associated research publications, numbering to~ 137 papers a day since …

Retracted COVID-19 articles: a side-effect of the hot race to publication

P Soltani, R Patini - Scientometrics, 2020 - Springer
In early 2020, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused a pandemic, affecting the
entire globe. Initially, the disease was relatively unknown. However, as COVID-19 became …

COVID-19 publications: Database coverage, citations, readers, tweets, news, Facebook walls, Reddit posts

K Kousha, M Thelwall - Quantitative Science Studies, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
The COVID-19 pandemic requires a fast response from researchers to help address
biological, medical, and public health issues to minimize its impact. In this rapidly evolving …

Academic journal retractions and the COVID-19 pandemic

C Anderson, K Nugent… - Journal of primary care & …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has produced an unprecedented amount of scientific
research, with over 100,000 articles on the SARS-COV2 virus or the associated pandemic …

Publishing of COVID-19 preprints in peer-reviewed journals, preprinting trends, public discussion and quality issues

I Kodvanj, J Homolak, D Virag, V Trkulja - Scientometrics, 2022 - Springer
Abstract COVID-19-related (vs. non-related) articles appear to be more expeditiously
processed and published in peer-reviewed journals. We aimed to evaluate:(i) whether …

The sharing of research data facing the COVID-19 pandemic

R Lucas-Dominguez, A Alonso-Arroyo, A Vidal-Infer… - Scientometrics, 2021 - Springer
During the previous Ebola and Zika outbreaks, researchers shared their data, allowing many
published epidemiological studies to be produced only from open research data, to speed …

Is rapid scientific publication also high quality? Bibliometric analysis of highly disseminated COVID‐19 research papers

A Khatter, M Naughton, H Dambha‐Miller… - Learned …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Bibliometric analysis of early COVID-19 research: the top 50 cited papers

H ElHawary, A Salimi, N Diab… - … diseases: research and …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly evolving with the number of cases
exponentially rising. The research scientific community has reacted promptly as evidenced …

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on publication dynamics and non-COVID-19 research production

M Raynaud, V Goutaudier, K Louis, S Al-Awadhi… - BMC medical research …, 2021 - Springer
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected health systems and medical
research worldwide but its impact on the global publication dynamics and non-COVID-19 …

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientific research in the life sciences

M Riccaboni, L Verginer - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The COVID-19 outbreak has posed an unprecedented challenge to humanity and science.
On the one side, public and private incentives have been put in place to promptly allocate …