Expedited editorial decision in COVID-19 pandemic.

Zhuanlan Sun, Sheng Liu, Yiwei Li, Chao Ma

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Article in Journal of informetrics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

1citing papers in PubMed

1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

Beyond correlation and causation: epistemic caution, anomalous findings, and COVID-19 vaccine safety.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zhuanlan SunInstitute of High-Quality Development Evaluation, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China.

Sheng LiuDepartment of Marketing and International Business, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, China.

Yiwei LiDepartment of Marketing and International Business, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, China.

Chao MaSchool of Economics and Management, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China.

Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications · CNSoutheast University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic and its resultant lockdowns have interrupted the way scientists live and work. This nevertheless caused an unforeseen impact of COVID-19: the pandemic substantially increased editorial speed. Here, we causally identify the impact of the pandemic on the editorial decision time, based on a quasi-experimental regression discontinuity (RD) design that compares (

Indexed as

COVID-19 pandemicEditorial decisionRegression discontinuityScientific publishingWork from home

Identifiers

PMID36686337

DOI10.1016/j.joi.2023.101382

PMCPMC9841084

OpenAlexW4316463990

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.