id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-275090-2gwv0vbs Odone, Anna The first 10,000 COVID-19 papers in perspective: Are we publishing what we should be publishing? 2020-08-20 .txt text/plain 857 63 59 They were published between 20th January and 7th May 2020, with an average of nearly 100 new papers added every day, published in 1881 different scientific journals. Later in February 2020, a more detailed list of research priorities was identified as essential to inform effective public health responses to COVID-19 3 . In March, the Science Translational Medicine Editorial framed key questions for pandemic prevention, identifying selected pathogen-and society-based variables to be measured 4 . As scientific output around COVID-19 evolves over time, we find, consistent with other efforts that are systematically monitoring the literature 5 , both poor adherence to identified research priorities, and a predominance of opinion over data. More than 60% of published papers on COVID-19 are opinion pieces not reporting original data. Overall, the question remains: has the surge in scientific publication around COVID-19 been a positive, or a negative, for science? How would he react to so few published papers on COVID-19 report original data? ./cache/cord-275090-2gwv0vbs.txt ./txt/cord-275090-2gwv0vbs.txt