Quality and reproducibility during the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, a situation that is well known to the scientific community has recently returned to the forefront. Indeed, for many reasons (source of funding, academic promotion, competition between research teams, financial interest from the private sector, search for personal recognition), authors are tending to publish their results more and more quickly, sometimes at the price of quality and reproducibility. Scientific journals are participating in this frenetic race by offering fast track peer review trajectories that guarantee rapid evaluation by reviewers but limit the ability to evaluate the submitted work in detail.

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