Since the Outbreak of COVID-19, we have witnessed an increasing mounting of published papers from all perspectives related to COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2. In the race of publishing a relevant COVID-19 paper, the Medical and Scientific literature and database has been flooded with all kind of low scientific standard manuscript.
Question: In this era, how do we assess and accept the soundness or value of a COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 paper in order to maintain high scientific standard?
Please provide your suggestions.
Guy-Armel Bounda This is a good question, and I hope you can survey the situation, profile and characterize what is happening, and then try to do something about it.
On the Internet, now, these are the numbers:
"covid-19" OR "coronavirus" OR "corona virus" has 5.76 billion entry points. People are blabbing everywhere. And I only used the English terms, and the most common.
("covid-19" OR "coronavirus" OR "corona virus") Filetype:pdf has 1.59 million entry points.
Those are supposed to be serious efforts. But no one has tried to consolidate, curate and compile all that into a succinct and non-duplicated form. I have tried to convince Google or any of the large data groups to simply index and organize that, but they have no responsibility. It is "what will you pay me to do it?" or "What's in it for me?"
I have asked the online publishers to not use PDF, since it is often locked and the information is not immediately usable. Researchers do a lot of work, and then send their conclusion by PDF to others. Their only option is to read it by eyeball, absorb with their mind and then try to reproduce what someone did - with not enough clues or data. So i recommend posting the data and models, background information and links to resources in common areas on the web -- globally accessible sites -- and then let everyone work together on ONE model of everything. Not hundreds of millions of disconnected and eclectic sites as it is now.
Richard Collins, Director, The Internet Foundation
From my perception, it depends on which field we intend to explore and relates our menuscript. As it's a hot cake now, researchers prepare their papers with own imagination! It's difficult to measure appropriate standard although publishers accepts, even on scopus, ISI indexed journal.
It depends on the institute and level of the publisher. All the published and available material will not be helpful. Only my opinion. Yes, good and quality work is the only way to find a solution to stop/prevent this COVID19. High respect for those scientists who are working day and night. People are appreciating forces for lockdown and rule and regulation. Doctors for treating COVID19 positive patients. But we all have forgotten these scientists who are working day and night to make the vaccine. #RESPECT
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