COVID-19 and literature evidence: should we publish anything and everything?

Jeremy Chan; Shwe Oo; Cheryl Yan Ting  Chor; Daniel Yim; Jeffrey Shi Kai Chan; Amer Harky

doi:10.23750/abm.v91i3.9827

COVID-19 and literature evidence: should we publish anything and everything?

Authors

Jeremy Chan Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, Coventry, UK
Shwe Oo Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol, UK
Cheryl Yan Ting Chor St. George’s Medical School, University of London, London, SW17 0RE, UK
Daniel Yim St. George’s Medical School, University of London, London, SW17 0RE, UK
Jeffrey Shi Kai Chan Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong
Amer Harky a:1:{s:5:"en_US";s:22:"Cardiothoracic Surgery";}

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23750/abm.v91i3.9827

Keywords:

COVID-19, Review, Bibliometric analysis

Abstract

COVID-19 first presented in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in December 2019. Since then, it has rapidly spread across the world, and is now formally considered a pandemic. As of 4^th of May more than 3.2 million people have been infected and over 250,000 people has died. Since the very start, scientists and researchers have tried to utilize this case to publish academic experiences and suggestions toward fighting this virus, which is lethal in some cases. To date, more than 9,000 academic papers have been published since December 2019. The quality of publications varies from a plane letter to editor to randomized studies. This review aims to analyse the current published literature related to COVID-19 and assess the quality of such articles.

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