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Volume 33, Nº 4, Julho e Agosto 2020

   

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36660/ijcs.20200191

EDITORIAL

Open Science and the Role of Cardiology Journals in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Claudio Tinoco Mesquita





In July 2020, Brazil has the world’s second highest Covid-19 death toll. The COVID-19 pandemic is spreading fast in America. Since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed, it took 114 days in Brazil (February 26-June 19) and 98 days in the USA (January 21-April 29) for the number of cases to reach more than 1,000,000. Parallel to the rapid growth of COVID-19 cases, there has been a progression in the number of scientific publications. Until June 2020, more than 25,800 papers about COVID-19 were published in PubMed (17,800 open access - 69%). This volume of scientific publications is unprecedent. The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), for example, received more than 11,000 submissions from January 1 to June 1, 2020, compared with approximately 4,000 submissions during the same period in 2019.1 The International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences is facing a similar situation with more than doubled manuscripts submitted. Our aim is to discuss the importance of Open Science during the COVID-19 pandemic and the role of cardiology journals in this special moment.

Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus; Pandemics; Scientific Publications; Peer Review; Ethical Review; Open Access Publishing.