Characteristics of Imperial College London's COVID-19 research outputs.

ABSTRACT: We identified 651 research outputs on the topic of COVID-19 in the form of preprint, report, journal article, dataset, and software/code published by Imperial College London authors between January to September 2020. We sought to understand the distribution of outputs over time by output type, peer review status, publisher, and open access status. Search of Scopus, the institutional repositories, Github, and other databases identified relevant research outputs, which were then combined with Unpaywall open access data and manually-verified associations between preprints and journal articles. Reports were the earliest output to emerge [median: 103 days, interquartile range (IQR): 57.5-129], but journal articles were the most commonly occurring output type over the entire period (60.8%, 396/6

SUBMITTER: Price R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8014869 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature