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Proliferation of Papers and Preprints During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: Progress or Problems With Peer Review?
- Source :
- Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- 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 travel. Unlike previous pandemics, the pace of the spread of the virus has been matched by the pace of publications, not just in traditional journals, but also in preprint servers. Not all publication findings are true, and sifting through the firehose of data has been challenging to peer reviewers, editors, as well as to consumers of the literature, that is, scientists, healthcare workers, and the general public. There has been an equally exponential rise in the public discussion on social media. Rather than decry the pace of change, we suggest the nephrology community should embrace it, making deposition of research into preprint servers the default, encouraging prepublication peer review more widely of such preprint studies, and harnessing social media tools to make these actions easier and seamless.
- Subjects :
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Blogging
Internet privacy
030232 urology & nephrology
Preprints
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Article
critical appraisal
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Server
Pandemic
Health care
Medicine
Humans
Social media
Pace
business.industry
SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19
blog posts
Critical appraisal
Preprints as Topic
Nephrology
Open Access Publishing
twitter
Preprint
Periodicals as Topic
business
Social Media
Editorial Policies
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15485609
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Advances in chronic kidney disease
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....387523afae9b7c63c65445e5572695dc