Editoriali - 28/12/2021
The effect of COVID-19 on scientific publishing in Italy
Gli effetti di COVID-19 sulla pubblicazione scientifica in Italia
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, a flood of Coronavirus research has spurred, and it has produced an unprecedented number of publications, favoured by rapid publishing, reduced fees, and specific COVID-19 paper calls that many biomedical journals have provided.1 Let us look over some numbers. LitCOVID,2 a daily updated literature hub tracking relevant COVID-19 related articles indexed in PubMed, at the end of October 2021 reported having collected a database of 187,206 citations. Th…