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Changes in medical scientific publication associated with the COVID‐19 pandemic
Author(s) -
Whitmore Kirsty A,
Laupland Kevin B,
Vincent Clare M,
Edwards Felicity A,
Reade Michael C
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja2.50855
Subject(s) - pandemic , misinformation , publishing , data sharing , social media , medline , medicine , covid-19 , family medicine , medical education , political science , alternative medicine , disease , law , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID19) pandemic has resulted in wideranging health, social and economic impacts. By October 2020, global cases exceeded 41 million, with 1.1 million deaths.1 Urgent requirements for information were met with data on epidemiology, clinical features and recommended management being circulated on social media and prepublication servers. While this has allowed timely sharing of data, it has also brought risk of misinformation, with consequent changes to medical practice and misdirection of scarce resources based on flawed evidence.