Scientific Communication and Education

The knowledge and practice towards COVID-19 pandemic prevention among residents of Ethiopia. An online cross-sectional study

1. Daniel Bekele
2. Tadesse Tolossa
3. Reta Tsegaye
4. Wondesen Teshome

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Covid-19 pandemic and the unprecedented mobilisation of scholarly efforts prompted by a health crisis: Scientometric comparisons across SARS, MERS and 2019-nCoV literature

1. Milad Haghani
2. Michiel C. J. Bliemer

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The representation of women as authors of submissions to ecology journals during the COVID-19 pandemic

1. Charles W. Fox

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Knowledge, attitude and practice of secondary school students toward COVID-19 epidemic in Italy: a cross selectional study

1. Dafni Souli
2. Maddalena Dilucca

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A scientometric overview of CORD-19

1. Giovanni Colavizza
2. Rodrigo Costas
3. Vincent A. Traag
4. Nees Jan van Eck
5. Thed van Leeuwen
6. Ludo Waltman

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Pandemic publishing: Medical journals strongly speed up their publication process for COVID-19

1. Serge P. J. M. Horbach

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BIP4COVID19: Releasing impact measures for articles relevant to COVID-19

1. Thanasis Vergoulis
2. Ilias Kanellos
3. Serafeim Chatzopoulos
4. Danae Pla Karidi
5. Theodore Dalamagas

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Life-course social disparities in body mass index trajectories across adulthood: cohort study evidence from China health and nutrition survey

1. Yusong Dang
2. Xinyu Duan
3. Peixi Rong
4. Mingxin Yan
5. Yaling Zhao
6. Baibing Mi
7. Jing Zhou
8. Yulong Chen
9. Duolao Wang
10. Leilei Pei

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  eLife assessment

  This work shows that higher socioeconomic status is associated with a higher risk of obesity, which should inform China's obesity public health programs and policies, and also be of interest to other countries and communities. The evidence supporting the conclusions is strong, but the data analysis is incomplete and would benefit from more rigorous approaches.

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National Institutes of Health research project grant inflation 1998 to 2021

1. Michael S Lauer
2. Joy Wang
3. Deepshikha Roychowdhury

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  eLife assessment

  This is an important manuscript that provides support for the hypothesis that the relative increase in NIH funding matches the rate of overall inflation. The level of evidence is solid, and a clearer description of the analysis will further strengthen the manuscript. This paper should be of relevance to funders, investigators who are currently funded, and those who are seeking federal support.

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Accessibility and Reproducible Research Practices in Cardiovascular Literature

1. Gabriel Heckerman
2. Eileen Tzng
3. Arely Campos-Melendez
4. Chisomaga Ekwueme
5. Adrienne L. Mueller

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  eLife assessment

  This is a descriptive paper in the field of metascience, which documents levels of accessibility and reproducible research practices in the field of cardiovascular science. As such, it does not make a theoretical contribution, but it argues, first, that there is a problem for this field, and second, it provides a baseline against which the impact of future initiatives to improve reproducibility can be assessed. The study was pre-registered and the methods and data are clearly documented. This kind of study is extremely labour-intensive and represents a great deal of work.

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