Disease course in patients with systemic autoimmune diseases: insights on the safety of immunosuppression during the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in Italy

Benfaremo, Devis; Perini, Lucia; Marconi, Valentina; Luchetti, Michele Maria; Gabrielli, Armando

doi:10.1016/j.ejim.2020.10.010

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“…In the sub-analysis specifically focused on the journals with an important number of Italian contributions, we found that COVID-19-related papers from Italy (defined as first and/or the corresponding author from Italy) accounted for 71% (50/70) and 100% (24/24) in the EJIM and JCM, respectively. The original contributions published on EJIM 6,13–40 (29/70 = 41.4%) and JCM 41–50 (10/24 = 41.6%) constituted a substantial number of the COVID-19-related papers published in these journals: higher than what was published in the other analyzed journals (Fig. 5).…”

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How did COVID-19 affect medical and cardiology journals? A pandemic in literature

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Albini

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Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

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Background and aims The spreading speed of the COVID-19 pandemic forced the medical community to produce efforts in updating and sharing the evidence about this new disease, trying to preserve the accuracy of the data but at the same time avoiding the potentially harmful delay from discovery to implementation. The aim of our analysis was to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical literature in terms of proportion of COVID-19-related published papers and temporal patterns of publications within a sample of general/internal medicine and cardiology journals.Methods We searched through PubMed scientific papers published from 1 January 2020 to 31 January 2021 about COVID-19 in ten major medical journals, of which five were in general/internal medicine and five in the cardiology field. We analyzed the proportion of COVID-19-related papers, and we examined temporal trends in the number of published papers.Results Overall, the proportion of COVID-19-related papers was 18.5% (1986/10 756). This proportion was higher among the five selected general/internal medicine journals, compared with cardiology journals (23.8% vs 9.5%). The vast majority of papers were not original articles; in particular, in cardiology journals, there were 28% 'original articles', 17% 'review articles' and 55.1% 'miscellaneous', compared with 20.2%, 5.1% and 74.7% in general/internal medicine journals, respectively.Conclusions Our analysis highlights the big impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international scientific literature. General and internal medicine journals were mainly involved, with cardiology journals only at a later time.

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