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 …

Background Since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, a large number of COVID-19-related
papers have been published. However, concerns about the risk of expedited science have …

Background Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in December 2019, a substantial
body of COVID-19 medical literature has been generated. As of June 2020, gaps and …

Appendix 1. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented focus of the world's
scientific community on one topic. To quantify, we have calculated that 4% of all scientific …

Objective Preprints have had a prominent role in the swift scientific response to COVID-19.
Two years into the pandemic, we investigated how much preprints had contributed to timely …

The COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020 with major health consequences. While a
need to disseminate information to the medical community and general public was …

The COVID-19 pandemic has been characterized by an unprecedented amount of
published scientific articles. The aim of this study is to assess the type of articles published …

Here we present the results of a bibliometric survey of peer-reviewed and pre-print papers
published in the English language on issues related to COVID-19 within the first three …

(COVID-19) pandemic. Anecdotally, academic researchers have noticed a reduction in the
amount of time journals require to review COVID-19 manuscripts. In this letter we describe …

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 …