Characteristics of academic publications, preprints, and registered clinical trials on the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Tytuł:: Characteristics of academic publications, preprints, and registered clinical trials on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Autorzy:: Silvia Gianola
Tiago S Jesus
Silvia Bargeri
Greta Castellini
Temat:: Medicine
Science
Źródło:: PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 10, p e0240123 (2020)
Wydawca:: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020.
Rok publikacji:: 2020
Kolekcja:: LCC:Medicine
LCC:Science
Typ dokumentu:: article
Opis pliku:: electronic resource
Język:: English
ISSN:: 1932-6203
Relacje:: https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203
DOI:: 10.1371/journal.pone.0240123
Dostęp URL:: https://doaj.org/article/f207731ce0804fe1b76ca65d8a1f7751 Link otwiera się w nowym oknie
Numer akcesji:: edsdoj.f207731ce0804fe1b76ca65d8a1f7751
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The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a deluge of publications. For this cross-sectional study we compared the amount and reporting characteristics of COVID-19-related academic articles and preprints and the number of ongoing clinical trials and systematic reviews. To do this, we searched the PubMed database of citations and abstracts for published life science journals by using appropriate combinations of medical subject headings (MeSH terms), and the COVID-19 section of the MedRxiv and BioRxiv archives up to 20 May 2020 (21 weeks). In addition, we searched Clinicaltrial.gov, Chinese Clinical Trial Registry, EU Clinical Trials Register, and 15 other trial registers, as well as PROSPERO, the international prospective register of systematic reviews. The characteristics of each publication were extracted. Regression analyses and Z tests were used to detect publication trends and their relative proportions. A total of 3635 academic publications and 3805 preprints were retrieved. Only 8.6% (n = 329) of the preprints were already published in indexed journals. The number of academic and preprint publications increased significantly over time (p

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