Balancing Scientific Rigor With Urgency in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

Andrej Spec; Ilan S Schwartz

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofaa304

Balancing Scientific Rigor With Urgency in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 Jul 21;7(8):ofaa304. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa304. eCollection 2020 Aug.

Authors

Andrej Spec¹, Ilan S Schwartz²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Disease, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Abstract

Knowledge dissemination during COVID19 has been notable for the rise of pre-prints and publication by press release, favoring speed over accuracy. We stress the importance of journals in this landscape and highlight the value of editorial judgment and peer review.

Keywords: COVID-19; evidence-based medicine; methodology; peer-review; publishing.

Publication types

Editorial