The production of review article has been increased in this covid period and research activities are decreased

The production of review article has been increased in this covid period and research activities are decreased

Dear Professor Muhammad Akram , your contribution to this discussion is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your reply.

Dear Dr. Evens Emmanuel ,

I don't think that COVID-19 will have negative impact on scientific articles production. Moreover, I suppose in some fields the productivity is growing.

Best,

Dr. Vardan Atoyan

I believe more scientific articles will be published in 2021. A total of 110 studies on COVID-19 were cleared in Makerere University mid lock down. However, studies that do not involve COVID-19 might be limited, but this might not affect non-COVID-19 articles per se, in my opinion.

Dear Evens Emmanuel

I look at the statistics of the ratings of journals MDPI, BMC, and I see that there are fewer articles. This may not be related to the covid-19 pandemic, but it is.

Although being at home it seems like there should be more time to write an article.

Regards, Pushkin Sergey Viktorovich

It is interesting that journals are reporting a massive increase in the number of articles submitted. These are mainly related to COVID-19. However many studies may be of poor quality and so are not being published...

There will certainly be a reduction in publication of non-COVID-19 related research..

Evens Emmanuel

Scientific articles also include those developed on the basis of secondary data. These were not affected due to confinement resulting from COVID-19.

Review articles, development of protocols, theories, procedures and methodologies can best be done in confinement and these can also be included under the head of scientific articles. So, in 2021 I see no shortage of scientific articles.

Of course, collection of primary data has become very difficult due to lock down and confinement these days. So in 2021, I see an acute shortage of scientific articles on the basis of primary data.

Thank you.

Best regards,

Anamitra.

Confinement during pandemic obviously prevents the researchers from doing active research works. However publication of previous research works (done before the onset of covid 19) and review papers will not be hampered.

OBVIOUSLY YES !: For example, at my Universidad Los Laboratios, etc. They are closed or have difficult access and with a limited number of attendees, so we cannot meet all the members of mine; on the other hand, field work, data collection through questionnaires, interviews or tests are impossible

Scientific research by women declined considerably during the pandemic period. They have to take care of the family and the home. The time of scientific work and the time of domestic work merged at home, deeply damaging the academic production of women.

Dear Professor Muhammad Akram, I make the same observation as you. However, I think that after confinement the intensity of research activities, especially in pure, life and earth sciences, will still be low. The economic impact of COVID-19 can extend to the funding of research outside the field of health, unless it would be the direct assessment of the pandemic on the sectors of activity maintaining the socio-economic dynamic.

The confinement period is still an opportunity for researchers to update their bibliographic database and therefore the production of review articles.Thank you for your reply.

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Dear Dr G Srinivasarao

Dear Dr Brenda Ayugi , your contribution to this discussion is greatly appreciated. Certainly other scientific articles will be published in 2021. Obviously, I want to underline in this discussion a certain number of difficulties that research teams and researchers, in particular in earth and city sciences, will be able to face. . Stopping a certain production line could slow down the on-time delivery of reagents for analyzes, for example. Budget cuts for research, etc.

Thank you for your reply.

I note, however, a certain global scientific mobilization on the production of knowledge on the challenges of COVID-19.

In fact, the information obtained from the Web of Science enabled me to count from January to June 2020, only in joint publications on COVID-19, 12,261 articles, 10,886 open access, and 2300 articles accepted in peer reviewering during the last week of April.

Dear Dr Pushkin Sergey Viktorovich, your contribution to this discussion is greatly appreciated. I think we should take advantage of this. Because the race for research grants will be very tough after the pandemic. We must prepare accordingly by working on review articles. Thank you for your reply.

With the exception of COVID-19 pandemic articles, I belive yes, that researches and articles in other subjects and discipline will be affected.

Dear Dr Rajkumar Rajendram, your contribution to this discussion is greatly appreciated. I share your analysis. Indeed, I reviewed several articles during the confinement. A significant number were rejected for methodological problems, lack of results, and weak discussions. I also believe there will be a decrease in scientific papers in fields unrelated to COVID-19. Thank you for your reply.

Definitely yes

Dear Dr Anamitra Roy, your contribution to this discussion is greatly appreciated. I agree with you in your observation, there is a significant decrease in scientific articles based on primary data.Thank you for your reply.

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It is a good question.

I am not sure the way of the process. It can affect both negative and positive.

Regards.

Dear Dr Cristiane Berselli, your contribution to this discussion is greatly appreciated. Let me salute the courage and hard work of female colleagues to advance the struggle of women's scientific research. You raise a problem in your reply that needs to be studied in depth by women and men of science. I wonder if it would not be relevant to approach UNESCO after the pandemic, on the basis of an unsolicited action, to ask it to launch a call for projects through its program with OREAL "Women, Science , and Technology ". Thank you for your reply.

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If the research work is highly experimental in nature due to the shut down of many activities during the pandemic this year it may negatively impact the publications next year. If one is doing theoretical work perhaps they continued with their computer modeling or social sciences research based on Metadata then the shutdown might have provided an opportunity to continue their work and perhaps publish work next year.

Dear Dr Srini Vasan, your contribution to this discussion is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your reply.

On the contrary, it has a positive effect on publishing scientific research and studies

Definitely, yes. Researchers are ill-tempered and confused by the dump situation of losing friends and beloved ones. Also, empirical research that requires the recruitment of participants will be hindered a lot.

Unfortunately, the difficulties are clearly visible. Nowadays, strong commitment is important as well as health - in the present circumstances.

Maybe especially when it comes to funding grants.

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The scientific and social value of research is in tension with the coercive nature confinement due to Covid-19. The ethics of clinical research are well established,but individuals under quarantine are distinctly vulnerable. Like prisoners, their confinement could affect their ability to make a truly voluntary and uncoerced decision whether or not to participate in research.

Dear Dr Muhammad Aledeh

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Dear Evens,

The main issues and concerns are:

1. The review process is taking longer than expected. All journals at least in my discipline, have posted a warning signs indicating that the review process due to COVID-19 pandemic is taking longer that expected.

2. For researchers who needs labs, machinery, filed trips, etc. the problems for doing effective research in the times of COVID-19 health crisis are multiple-fold.

Best regards

Prof. Dr. Mazin A. M. Al Janabi

Full Professor of Finance & Banking and Financial Engineering

EGADE Business School, Tecnologico de Monterrey,

Santa Fe Campus, Mexico City, Mexico.

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Dear Muhammad Aledeh

Yes, community based epidemiological researches in medical fraternity has been severely effected due to the covid19 pandemic.

I think yes it will be affected

Dear Evens Emmanuel , this is fine research about this topic.

SURVEY ON COVID-19 IMPACT ON RESEARCHERS

The new coronavirus outbreak, which led to the global pandemic, has an impact on researchers and the progression of their work. Due to lockdowns, many researchers lost full access to their research institutions or had to stay at home for family care. Various organisations representing young researchers in Europe, are currently working towards understanding the extent of the short and long term impact on their careers...

https://www.euroscientist.com/survey-on-covid-19-impact-on-researchers/

Yes for those who had to conduct research and collect data, but no for those who had already collected data.

Of course Yes, I do not have access to my laboratories anymore, because they have been locked by University authority. Sampling of environments has been discontinued. Movement around Nigeria is tightly regulated. All the researches in this world will be conducted only if there is life. That's the slogan about town and country. Of course, there is massive negative impact on publication of scientific articles. Publication of review articles could, nevertheless, increase given the ample time in forced seclusion to think, surf the internet, collate and articulate.

Perhaps, some empírical studies may be affected!

Dear Sumanta Chakraborty, thank you for your contribution to this discussion.

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Dear Ljubomir Jacić, your contribution to this discussion is greatly appreciated. Thank you for the shared link. Reading the text SURVEY ON COVID-19 IMPACT ON RESEARCHERS, as well as that of Dr Cristiane Berselli 's reply, allow us to retain for the moment two important groups of researchers who are impacted by COVID-19: young researchers and women.Thank you for your participation to this proposal

Are women publishing less during the pandemic? Here’s what the data say

Early analyses suggest that female academics are posting fewer preprints and starting fewer research projects than their male peers.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01294-9

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Good time for theorists, or to process old data ... As they say in Russia: "To somebody this is the war, and to somebody the dear mother ..." ;-/)

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Will COVID-19 mark the end of scientific publishing as we know it?

When it comes to retrofitting scholarly publishing for a pandemic, though, preprints are just one part of the equation. There's an ocean of important discoveries instantly available, but also an ocean of studies—some deep, some dubious—to wade through.

Here again, open access will be essential, researchers say. If a major bottleneck in publishing is the oft prolonged process of peer review, the solution looks something like a global network of scientists all deployed at once.

One such coalition is Rapid Reviews: COVID-19, an innovative open access journal recently launched by UC Berkeley and the MIT Press. Built to strike a balance between speed and rigor, the journal uses machine learning software (developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) along with a global team of volunteers to gather and sift through scores of preprints each week. Scraping the internet for information such as social media mentions and university reports, the team is able to swiftly identify promising studies in need of review...

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-covid-scientific-publishing.html

Dear LjubomicJacić, thank you for your contribution to this discussion.

Very pertinent discussion. Lost a research grant, the reason being data collection not possible amidst the pandemic.

Thank you Sumanta Chakraborty, I think that we will have some experiences to share on the subject of this discussion.

Yes

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I fully agree with Dr. Francisco Javier Gala

Yes. Since, during these pandemic physically and mentally every researcher is weak

Thank you, dear Dra Manal

Dear Dr Muhammad Aledeh

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COVID-19’s gendered impact on academic productivity

https://github.com/drfreder/pandemic-pub-bias/blob/master/README.md

It is an opportunity to finish writing papers that were pending due to lack of time. The production rate of simulation and theoretical papers should increase. Papers that need experimental work and field data might slow down.

Overall, COVID-19 related publications are overwhelming.

Dear Dr Ahmad K. Sleiti , your contribution to this discussion is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your reply.

Definitely no. It is good an opportunity for interesting in scientific research. It is a positive step.

Dear sir In my opinion:

If the data collection method is based on:

1. interviews and ratios or financial reports: yes

2. questionnaires : No

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Thank you, dear Dr. Evens

If the data is depending to laboratory work and some experiments have been finished yet. For that the confinement can relatively have a negative effect on the scientific production of 2021.

Really interesting question. I think, most scientists are focusing on Covid-19 studies. That's why the studies on other researching areas have decreased.

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