Massive covidization of research citations and the citation elite

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1. Version published to 10.1073/pnas.2204074119

   Jul 7, 2022
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   ScreenIT

   Jan 28, 2022

   SciScore for 10.1101/2022.01.24.22269775: (What is this?)

   Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

   Table 1: Rigor

   NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.

   Table 2: Resources

   Software and Algorithms
   Sentences	Resources
   As many publications related to COVID-19 have been first disseminated using pre-print servers, we also included preprint publications from ArXiv, SSRN, BioRxiv, ChemRxiv and medRxiv [2].	ArXiv suggested: (arXiv, RRID:SCR_006500) BioRxiv suggested: (bioRxiv, RRID:SCR_003933)

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   Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).

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   Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:

   There are several limitations to our work. First, the …

   SciScore for 10.1101/2022.01.24.22269775: (What is this?)

   Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

   Table 1: Rigor

   NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.

   Table 2: Resources

   Software and Algorithms
   Sentences	Resources
   As many publications related to COVID-19 have been first disseminated using pre-print servers, we also included preprint publications from ArXiv, SSRN, BioRxiv, ChemRxiv and medRxiv [2].	ArXiv suggested: (arXiv, RRID:SCR_006500) BioRxiv suggested: (bioRxiv, RRID:SCR_003933)

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   Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).

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   Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:

   There are several limitations to our work. First, the classification into COVID-19 versus non-COVID-19 work may not be perfect. However, it is unlikely that the existence of a border zone of difficult to classify papers and of papers misclassified by our search algorithm would change the big picture of the results. Second, some scientists may have their publications split into two or more Scopus ID files and some Scopus ID files may include papers by more than one author. Nevertheless, Scopus data have high precision and recall (98.1% and 94.4%, respectively) [4], therefore this is unlikely to be a source of major error. Third, we could not evaluate whether the massive advent of the COVID-19 literature and of its citation footprint affected (negatively) the non-COVID-19 literature and its citations. This is very difficult to evaluate since there are dynamic changes in the volume of the Scopus-indexed literature over time, irrespective of COVID-19. Some of these changes are genuine (e.g. due to emergence of some new hot research areas) and others are artifacts of indexing (e.g. more journals are indexed in Scopus over time). By design, we opted to focus on authors with at least 5 full papers, conference papers or reviews under their belt by August 21, 2021. This choice has been adopted also in previous work [2]. This design probably excluded from the evaluation a substantial number of early career scientists who have not published that many papers yet, but who may have already...

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   Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.

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   Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.

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   Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

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   Results from rtransparent:

   • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
   • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
   • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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   Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.

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   Version published to 10.1101/2022.01.24.22269775v1 on medRxiv

   Jan 25, 2022