Scientific quality of COVID-19 and SARS CoV-2 publications in the highest impact medical journals during the early phase of the pandemic: A case control study.

PLoS One · 2020 · PMC7643945 · PMID 33152034

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We also demonstrated a worrying trend of increasingly long authorships in lower quality COVID-19 publications, with the almost ‘anecdotical’ findings of some of the publications actually having more authors than patients [ 38 , 43 , 46 ].

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