The Emergency Medicine Facing the Challenge of Open Science

Abstract

(1) Background: The availability of research datasets can strengthen and facilitate research processes. This is specifically relevant in the emergency medicine field due to the importance of providing immediate care in critical situations as the very current Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic is showing to the scientific community. This work aims to show which Emergency Medicine journals indexed in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) currently meet data sharing criteria. (2) Methods: This study analyzes the editorial policies regarding the data deposit of the journals in the emergency medicine category of the JCR and evaluates the Supplementary material of the articles published in these journals that have been deposited in the PubMed Central repository. (3) Results: It has been observed that 19 out of the 24 journals contained in the emergency medicine category of Journal Citation Reports are also located in PubMed Central (PMC), yielding a total of 5983 articles. Out of these, only 9.4% of the articles contain supplemental material. Although second quartile journals of JCR emergency medicine category have quantitatively more articles in PMC, the main journals involved in the deposit of supplemental material belong to the first quartile, of which the most used format in the articles is pdf, followed by text documents. (4) Conclusion: This study reveals that data sharing remains an incipient practice in the emergency medicine field, as there are still barriers between researchers to participate in data sharing. Therefore, it is necessary to promote dynamics to improve this practice both qualitatively (the quality and format of datasets) and quantitatively (the quantity of datasets in absolute terms) in research.

The sharing of research data facing the COVID-19 pandemic

“…Co-authoring an article and being cited frequently are often the only rewards for sharing information that can take years to collect and months of hard work to select. In short, we are in an era in which the scientific community is still debating the pros and cons of data sharing (Aleixandre-Benavent et al, 2018 ; Chretien et al, 2016 ; Sixto-Costoya et al, 2020 ; Vidal-Infer et al, 2019 ; Walport & Brest, 2011 ). This low percentage does not extend to gene sequence repositories, where scientists often share the sequences at the same time as they are discovered (Chretien et al, 2016 ; Pham-Kanter et al, 2014 ).…”

SARS-CoV-2 Persistence: Data Summary up to Q2 2020

“…Recently, the contamination and decontamination of inanimate surfaces has been discussed. Inactivation time of the Sars-CoV-2 on surfaces (liquid, solid or gaseous) is still debated [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]]. The exposed surfaces to this type of transmission route include:…”

Survey of Decentralized Solutions with Mobile Devices for User Location Tracking, Proximity Detection, and Contact Tracing in the COVID-19 Era

“…Medical and non-medical teams worldwide are looking actively for solutions to combat, mitigate, and slow the spreading of SARS-COV-2. Various forms of digital data for COVID-19 disease control have already been published, such as the raw measurements on various environmental factors from [2] or the geostatistical data of locations where COVID-19 tests were taken in the US [3], and the importance of data sharing has been already emphasized in the research literature, e.g., in [4].…”