Impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on scientific research and implications for clinical academic training – A review

Sohrabi, Catrin; Mathew, Ginimol; Franchi, Thomas; Kerwan, Ahmed; Griffin, Michelle; Mundo, Jennick Soleil C Del; Ali, Syed Ahsan; Agha, Maliha; Agha, Riaz

doi:10.1016/j.ijsu.2020.12.008

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“…The relationship between per capita income and coronavirus cases exhibits a U-shaped relationship between them. Sohrabi et al ( 2021 ) concluded that scientific collaboration and research-based initiatives are leading to international collaboration to reducing coronavirus cases globally. Zaremba et al ( 2021 ) argued that government policies support the financial market reducing price volatility that is appreciable in the pandemic crisis.…”

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Nonlinearity in the relationship between COVID-19 cases and carbon damages: controlling financial development, green energy, and R&D expenditures for shared prosperity

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Khan

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Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The world faces a high alert of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), leading to a million deaths and could become infected to reach a billion numbers. A sizeable amount of scholarly work has been available on different aspects of social-economic and environmental factors. At the same time, many of these studies found the linear (direct) causation between the stated factors. In many cases, the direct relationship is not apparent. The world is unsure about the possible determining factors of the COVID-19 pandemic, which need to be known through conducting nonlinearity (indirect) relationships, which caused the pandemic crisis. The study examined the nonlinear relationship between COVID-19 cases and carbon damages, managing financial development, renewable energy consumption, and innovative capability in a cross section of 65 countries. The results show that inbound foreign direct investment first increases and later decreases because of the increasing coronavirus cases. Further, the rise and fall in the research and development expenditures and population density exhibits increasing coronavirus cases across countries. The continued economic growth initial decreases later increase by adopting standardized operating procedures to contain coronavirus disease. The inter-temporal relationship shows that green energy source and carbon damages would likely influence the coronavirus cases with a variance of 17.127% and 5.440%, respectively, over a time horizon. The policymakers should be carefully designing sustainable healthcare policies, as the cost of carbon emissions leads to severe healthcare issues, which are likely to get exposed to contagious diseases, including COVID-19. The sustainable policy instruments, including renewable fuels in industrial production, advancement in cleaner production technologies, the imposition of carbon taxes on dirty production, and environmental certifications, are a few possible remedies that achieve healthcare sustainability agenda globally.

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Nonlinearity in the relationship between COVID-19 cases and carbon damages: controlling financial development, green energy, and R&D expenditures for shared prosperity

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“…Additionally, open-access journals could be freely accessed, which allows for much progress to be made in regard to scientific trials and helps expand some research areas. During the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers followed alternative strategies including those listed below: Preparing and writing grants, review articles, and paper submissions [ 3 , 92 , 93 ]; Administering online questionnaires [ 94 , 95 ]; Carrying out meta-analyses of relevant literature and research in the field [ 96 ]. …”

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Beyond the Pandemic: COVID-19 Pandemic Changed the Face of Life

Khalifa

Swilam

El-Wahed

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The COVID-19 pandemic is a serious challenge for societies around the globe as entire populations have fallen victim to the infectious spread and have taken up social distancing. In many countries, people have had to self-isolate and to be confined to their homes for several weeks to months to prevent the spread of the virus. Social distancing measures have had both negative and positive impacts on various aspects of economies, lifestyles, education, transportation, food supply, health, social life, and mental wellbeing. On other hands, due to reduced population movements and the decline in human activities, gas emissions decreased and the ozone layer improved; this had a positive impact on Earth’s weather and environment. Overall, the COVID-19 pandemic has negative effects on human activities and positive impacts on nature. This study discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on different life aspects including the economy, social life, health, education, and the environment.

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“…There is a long-held expectation that students receive their RCR training from working with mentors (advisors), or through mentions of RCR throughout their coursework, has done little to stem the problem of RCR (Steneck & Bulger, 2007). Changing demographics of university students (i.e., moving away from full-time on campus toward part-time online work, see Polson, 2003), the increasing complexity of engaging in human-based research (e.g., multi-site trials, calculating risk/benefit analyses, obtaining versus waiving consent, see Porter et al, 2018), compounded by the ongoing challenges of conducting research online (Padala et al, 2020), with rigorous peer review (Denis-Oliveira, 2020), and providing access to remote RCR re/training (Sohrabi et al, 2021) due to COVID-19 interruptions present additional challenges to maintaining student and researchers' knowledge and skills of RCR. Specifically, the challenge is having researchers apply all RCR principles appropriately and consistently.…”

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Reflecting on Responsible Conduct of Research: A Self Study of a Research-Oriented University Community

2021

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Research-oriented universities are known for prolific research activity that is often supported by students in faculty-guided research. To maintain ethical standards, universities require on-going training of both faculty and students to ensure Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR). However, previous research has indicated RCR-based training is insufficient to address the ethical dilemmas that are prevalent within academic settings: navigating issues of authorship, modeling relationships between faculty and students, minimization of risk, and adequate informed consent. U.S. universities must explore ways to identify and improve RCR concerns for current (faculty) and future researchers (students). This article reports the findings of a self-study (N = 50) of research stakeholders (students and faculty) at a top tier research institution. First, we report on their perceived importance of applying RCR principles. Second, we explore relationships between stakeholder backgrounds (e.g., prior training, field, and position) and how they ranked the degree of ethical concerns in fictitious vignettes that presented different unethical issues university students could encounter when conducting research. Vignette rankings suggested concerns of inappropriate relationships, predatory authorship and IRB violations which were judged as most unethical, which was dissimilar to what sampled researchers reported in practice as the most important RCR elements to understand and adhere to for successful research. Regression models indicated there was no significant relationship between individuals’ vignette ethics scores and backgrounds, affirming previous literature suggesting that training can be ineffectual in shifting researcher judgments of ethical dilemmas. Recommendations for training are discussed.

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Impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on scientific research and implications for clinical academic training – A review

Cited by 143 publications

References 55 publications

Nonlinearity in the relationship between COVID-19 cases and carbon damages: controlling financial development, green energy, and R&D expenditures for shared prosperity

Nonlinearity in the relationship between COVID-19 cases and carbon damages: controlling financial development, green energy, and R&D expenditures for shared prosperity

Beyond the Pandemic: COVID-19 Pandemic Changed the Face of Life

Reflecting on Responsible Conduct of Research: A Self Study of a Research-Oriented University Community

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