Education Desk: With over 50 new COVID-19 preprints published every day, COVID-19 experts need to know which research can be trusted and built on, but they don’t have the time to screen every new paper.
You can help. While you may not be working directly on COVID-19, you may be an expert in fields that share similarities in methodology and core concepts. You can help by critically appraising the latest COVID-19 papers for sound scientific practices.
Use Publons COVID-19 index to contribute open reviews for publications or preprints today. If you don’t have time for a rapid review, simply score a paper you’ve already read – it only takes a few seconds.
After submission, your comments and scores will be displayed in the COVID-19 publication and preprint index, helping experts quickly make sense of the flood of COVID-19 research to know which papers they should focus on or dismiss, saving them precious time in this outbreak.
Library professional can help in the fight by sharing this information with the experts they know. Publons is open for all to track own publications, citation metrics, verify and showcase their peer review and editorial contributions across the world’s academic journals. It does not require to have had access to Web of Science or any other products of the Clarivate Analytics. ♦
