COVID-19 and Changing Paradigm in Scholarly communication

1. Scholarly Communications and Its Changing
Paradigm During COVID-19
Vasantha Raju N.
Librarian, Govt. First Grade College-Talakadu
You can find me at @vasanthraju
UGC-HRDC, University of Mysore, Mysore
19th October 2010

2. COVID-19 has created an unprecedented global health crisis. Researchers across
the world have been trying hard to find vaccine or drugs for this highly infectious
disease. As a result there is a drastic increase in number of scientific
publications on this subject.
Researchers are looking for disseminating their research as quickly as possible
and help the global research on coronavirus to find potential drugs or vaccine as
early as possible. So scientists are publishing their scientific results through
preprints. This has pushed traditional publishers to speed up the peer
review process and also provide open access to COVID-19 literature

3. Impact of COVID-19 on Scholarly Communications
Source: Miller, R. C., & Tsai, C. J. (2020). Scholarly Publishing in the Wake of COVID-19.

4. Distributions of COVID-19 Related Research Across Different
Publication Platforms
Source: https://app.dimensions.ai/

5. “A preprint is a version of a scientific manuscript
posted on a public server prior to formal peer
review. As soon as it’s posted, your preprint
becomes a permanent part of the scientific record,
citable with its own unique DOI”

6. Examples of Preprint Servers

7. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.15.20209817v1

8. Benefits of Preprint Servers
Source: https://plos.org/open-science/preprints/

9. Benefits of Preprint Servers
Source: https://plos.org/open-science/preprints/

10. Difference Between Preprints and Traditional Scholarly Publications
Source: Vlasschaert, C., Topf, J. M., & Hiremath, S. (2020). Proliferation of Papers and Preprints
During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: Progress or Problems With Peer Review?.
Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease.

11. Can article posted as preprint can be submitted to a peer
reviewed Journals?
• Yes!
the same work posted as preprint can also be submitted for
peer reviewed journal.
DIRECT TRANSFER FROM MEDRXIV TO JOURNALS (M2J)
ASAPbio (Accelerating Science and Publication in biology)
• https://asapbio.org/preprint-servers

12. Benefits We Got for Our Paper after Posted in medRxiv
preprint server

13. This journal has shown interest in our article
and it is under review for potential publication
This happened just because we had posted our
article in medRxiv

14. Preprints are also not without Contraversy during this Pandemic
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The preprint surge in this time of health crisis is altering the
main spike of scholarly communications and bringing open
peer review system to the main stream as well as making
scholarly contents to be more open and available for all
without any restrictions

16. So What is the Future of Scholarly Communications
Emergence of Open Peer Review System
https://f1000research.com/
https://pubpeer.com/

17. AI Driven Search Engines and Open Data/Science

19. Citation Metrics
(Altmetrics)

20. Citation metrics track and measure
citations to provide an indication of the
impact of a publication.

21. Types of Citation Metrics
Journal Metrics
• Journal Impact Factor (JIF), CiteScore, SJR
Article-Level Metrics
Author Metrics
• Citation Count, Altmetrics, FWCI
• h-index, FWCI

22. Altmetrics
Altmetrics tracks Article level metrics through:
Usage Data
• Clicks/Page Views
• Downloads
Mentions on Social
Media platforms
• Blog posts
• Comments, shares,
likes in Facebook,
Twitter etc.
Interest in
Reading/Citing
• Bookmarks, saves,
subscription
• Readership in
citation manager
such as Mendeley

23. Altmetrics Attention Schema in Color Donut
Source: https://www.altmetric.com/

24. • Increase the visibility of your research by having researcher profile
either in Google Scholar /WoS Researcher ID/Scopus Author
ID/ORCID
• Share Research results in Social Media Platforms (Twitter/FB/blogs)
• Publish your Research in Open Access Peer-Reviewed Journals/Pre-
prints
• Publish your Research Outcomes in Local Languages

25. Souce : Mierzecka, A. (2019). The Role of Academic Libraries in Scholarly Communication. A Meta-Analysis of Research. Studia Medioznawcze, 20(1), 99-112.

26. Thank You
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