Several hundred studies have attempted to estimate the monetary cost arising from the
management and/or impacts of invasive alien species. However, the diversity of methods …

This article investigates the determinants and consequences of manipulating COVID-19
statistics in an authoritarian federation using the Russian case. It abandons the …

Analyzing the COVID-19 pandemic is a critical factor in developing effective policies to deal
with similar challenges in the future. However, many parameters (eg, the actual number of …

Background Previous studies have used Benford's distribution to assess the accuracy of
COVID-19 data. Data inaccuracies provide false information to the media, undermine global …

Background Claims of inconsistency in epidemiological data have emerged for both
developed and developing countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods In this paper …

Many governments have been reported to systematically manipulate official statistics.
However, scholarly research has not extensively dealt with the determinants of data …

The availability of accurate information has proved fundamental to managing health crises.
This research examined pandemic data provided by 198 countries worldwide two years after …

The prevalent interpretation of COVID-19 mortality underreporting typically focuses on
authoritarian regimes' propensity for data manipulation. This study, however, posits that the …

To fight coronavirus disease 2019, non-pharmaceutical interventions were adopted all over
the world. Non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) effectiveness also depends on …

We investigate the relationship between the credibility of officially reported COVID-19
infection cases and the direct effects of the public health crisis on stock market performance …