Pandemic publishing: Medical journals strongly speed up their publication process for COVID-19

SPJM Horbach - Quantitative science studies, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
In times of public crises, including the current COVID-19 pandemic, rapid dissemination of
relevant scientific knowledge is of paramount importance. The duration of scholarly journals' …

[HTML][HTML] When science goes viral: The research response during three months of the COVID-19 outbreak

J Nowakowska, J Sobocińska, M Lewicki… - Biomedicine & …, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Proliferation of papers and preprints during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: progress or problems with peer review?

C Vlasschaert, JM Topf, S Hiremath - Advances in chronic kidney disease, 2020 - Elsevier
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spread exponentially throughout
the world in a short period, aided by our hyperconnected world including global trade and …

No time for that now! Qualitative changes in manuscript peer review during the Covid-19 pandemic

SPJM Horbach - Research Evaluation, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The global Covid-19 pandemic has had a considerable impact on the scientific enterprise,
including scholarly publication and peer-review practices. Several studies have assessed …

bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology

R Sever, T Roeder, S Hindle, L Sussman, KJ Black… - BioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
The traditional publication process delays dissemination of new research, often by months,
sometimes by years. Preprint servers decouple dissemination of research papers from their …