Publishing during pandemic: Innovation, collaboration, and change

Smart, Pippa

doi:10.1002/leap.1314

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“…The diversification of journal ecosystems and peer-review acceleration (Smart, 2020), together with the open exchange of experimental data following the Open Access and the more recent Open Science movements, could have also contributed to the explosion of COVID literature (Belli et al, 2020). The intensive and accelerated use of pre-print servers…”

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The multidisciplinary nature of COVID-19 research

Jorge

García-García

Galbán-Rodríguez

et al. 2020

Iberoam J Sci Meas Comm

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Objective. We analyzed the scientific output after COVID-19 and contrasted it with studies published in the aftermath of seven epidemics/pandemics: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Influenza A virus H5N1 and Influenza A virus H1N1 human infections, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), Ebola virus disease, Zika virus disease, and Dengue. Design/Methodology/Approach. We examined bibliometric measures for COVID-19 and the rest of the studied epidemics/pandemics. Data were extracted from Web of Science, using its journal classification scheme as a proxy to quantify the multidisciplinary coverage of scientific output. We proposed a novel Thematic Dispersion Index (TDI) for the analysis of pandemic early stages. Results/Discussion. The literature on the seven epidemics/pandemics before COVID-19 has shown explosive growth of the scientific production and continuous impact during the first three years following each emergence or re-emergence of the specific infectious disease. A subsequent decline was observed with the progressive control of each health emergency. We observed an unprecedented growth in COVID-19 scientific production. TDI measured for COVID-19 (29,4) in just six months, was higher than TDI of the rest (7,5 to 21) during the first three years after epidemic initiation. Conclusions. COVID-19 literature showed the broadest subject coverage, which is clearly a consequence of its social, economic, and political impact. The proposed indicator (TDI), allowed the study of multidisciplinarity, differentiating the thematic complexity of COVID-19 from the previous seven epidemics/pandemics. Originality/Value. The multidisciplinary nature and thematic complexity of COVID-19 research were successfully analyzed through a scientometric perspective.

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The multidisciplinary nature of COVID-19 research

Jorge

García-García

Galbán-Rodríguez

et al. 2020

Iberoam J Sci Meas Comm

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“…Практически все публикации о COVID-19 стремительно попадали в открытый доступ, независимо от политики, проводимой изданиями. Во всем мире сроки рецензирования научных сообщений о COVID-19 сократились более чем вдвое (при весьма незначительном замедлении рецензирования других статей) [1].…”

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Scientific publication — 2020

Gorbunov-Possadov

2020

Scientific Conference “Scientific Services &Amp; Internet”

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Аннотация. Влияние пандемии COVID-19 на мир научных публикаций: стремительная публикация и упрощенный доступ для статей о вирусе, открытый доступ на время самоизоляции в мире и в России. Впечатляющая разница между числом читателей для российских научных статей в открытом и платном доступе, политика журналов Российской академии наук. Впечатляющий рост читательской аудитории КиберЛенинки. Онлайновое заседание диссертационного совета. Новости eLibrary. Комплексный балл публикационной активности от Минобрнауки.

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“…The community's efforts to exponentially increase high‐quality COVID‐19‐related research output; accelerate and adapt publishing processes; and facilitate the wide and open dissemination and discovery of this research garnered noteworthy attention, even across media outlets such as Bloomberg (Fox, 2020), The New York Times (Apuzzo & Kirkpatrick, 2020), and The Economist (Economist, 2020). Following broad support for these efforts, as well as a growing understanding of the pressures they placed on various aspects of the global research infrastructure, the scholarly communications community continues to engage in dialogue regarding the challenges and opportunities to sustain the more successful and desired outcomes from these efforts by further adapting existing structures, processes, and skills while minimizing or correcting what did not work well (Callaway, 2020; Helliwell et al ., 2020; Smart, 2020). This dialogue became a central rationale for this issue's focus on the concept and embodiment of resilience in uncertain times.…”

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From sensemaking to sensegiving: A discourse analysis of the scholarly communications community's public response to the global pandemic

Shaw

2021

Learned Publishing

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This study examines the scholarly communications community's public response to the global pandemic. A discourse analysis was conducted of press releases, blogs, and website updates across non-profits, commercial publishers, government agencies, technology companies, and universities to identify (1) the range of support activities immediately undertaken following the proclamation of the pandemic; (2) the language and style of public discourse used, demonstrating how different organizations characterized their responses and roles during the crisis; and (3) specific patterns that emerged among this community related to the process of organizational sensemaking. The findings show that the global community appeared highly adaptive and conceptually aligned in its initial response. Different actors within the community presented distinct identities relative to leadership, advocacy, service, or constituent orientation. More importantly, a majority of organizations demonstrated the use of sensegiving strategies to influence the future state of scholarly publishing, particularly with respect to the expressed desire for greater global collaboration, transparency, quality assurance, and openness. These findings may have implications regarding the future enactment of open and collaborative research publishing, which is especially significant at this stage of the global open science movement's development.

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Publishing during pandemic: Innovation, collaboration, and change

Cited by 12 publications

References 5 publications

The multidisciplinary nature of COVID-19 research

The multidisciplinary nature of COVID-19 research

Scientific publication — 2020

From sensemaking to sensegiving: A discourse analysis of the scholarly communications community's public response to the global pandemic

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