Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 May 2020
Scientific research on the coronavirus is being released in a torrent
6 May 2020 - Will that change how science is published?
Exponential increases are a hallmark of pandemics. The spread of SARS-CoV-2 around the world has followed such a curve inexorably. But so, too, has the research effort to understand and control the virus.
More than 7,000 papers on the pandemic—covering everything from virology to epidemiology—have appeared in the past three months. A fifth of them have come out in the past week alone.
