Analyzing more than 1M citations to better understand scientific research on COVID-19

peter.suber's bookmarks 2020-03-28

Summary:

"COVID-19 has caused worldwide anxiety and thousands of deaths. Each day, new data and research are published. With the high level of activity and collaboration worldwide, what gets published today may be outdated the week after. How do researchers, medical professionals, policymakers, and the public keep up to date and informed?

At scite, we have created an easy way for anyone to see how a scientific article has been cited and, specifically, if it has been supported or contradicted by subsequent research. We do this by analyzing millions of full-text publications, extracting the citation statements from these publications, and then classifying these as supporting or contradicting evidence.

Recently, to help the world make more sense of COVID-19 research, we turned our attention and novel functionality to COVID-19 papers and preprints...."

Link:

https://medium.com/scite/analyzing-more-than-1m-citations-to-better-understand-scientific-research-on-covid-19-3faa59d726c2

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oa.new oa.medicine oa.scite oa.metadata oa.citations

Date tagged:

03/28/2020, 16:17

Date published:

03/28/2020, 12:17