Collateral damage: has the COVID-19 pandemic more strongly impacted medical research than other scientific areas

The principle of resource allocation states that diversion of resources to attend a function may compromise others. The COVID-19 pandemic required a rapid response with a justifiable relocation of equipment, funds and human resources. Based on the ecological principle of allocation, we tested whe...

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Autores principales: Farji Brener, Alejandro, Amador Vargas, Sabrina
Otros Autores: Albuquerque, Ulises (ed.)
Formato: Articulo article acceptedVersion
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: PeerJ 2023
Materias:
COVID-19
Pandemic
Pandemia
Collateral damage
Daños colaterales
Public health
Salud pública
Funding
Financiamiento
Ciencias Biomédicas
Acceso en línea:http://rdi.uncoma.edu.ar/handle/uncomaid/17290
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Repositorio Institucional UNCo de Universidad Nacional del Comahue
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spelling I22-R178-uncomaid-172902023-07-09T01:12:28Z Collateral damage: has the COVID-19 pandemic more strongly impacted medical research than other scientific areas Farji Brener, Alejandro Amador Vargas, Sabrina Albuquerque, Ulises (ed.) COVID-19 Pandemic Pandemia Collateral damage Daños colaterales Public health Salud pública Funding Financiamiento Ciencias Biomédicas The principle of resource allocation states that diversion of resources to attend a function may compromise others. The COVID-19 pandemic required a rapid response with a justifiable relocation of equipment, funds and human resources. Based on the ecological principle of allocation, we tested whether the relocation of resources to support COVID-19 research was more detrimental to medical research than to research in other scientific areas. We compared the yearly number of published articles from 2015 to 2021 using disease-related keywords and non-medical scientific keywords. Contrary to the expectation, we found an abrupt reduction in the publication rates in all research areas from 2019 to 2020 or 2021, compared to the pre-pandemic period (2015–2019). The allocation effect on medical research may be overshadowed by stronger effects of the pandemic, or it may become evident in the coming years. The drastic reduction in published papers could have negative consequences for scientific advancements, including understanding and curing diseases other than COVID-19 that strongly affect humanity. Fil: Farji Brener, Alejandro. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Centro Regional Universitario Bariloche. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Ambiente; Argentina. Fil: Farji Brener, Alejandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Fil: Amador Vargas, Sabrina. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Panama. 2023-06-13 2023-06-26T15:29:53Z 2023-06-26T15:29:53Z Articulo article acceptedVersion http://rdi.uncoma.edu.ar/handle/uncomaid/17290 eng DOI 10.7717/peerj.15436 https://peerj.com/articles/15436/ Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 2.5 Argentina https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/ application/pdf pp. 2-10 application/pdf PeerJ PeerJ Journals
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topic COVID-19
Pandemic
Pandemia
Collateral damage
Daños colaterales
Public health
Salud pública
Funding
Financiamiento
Ciencias Biomédicas
spellingShingle COVID-19
Pandemic
Pandemia
Collateral damage
Daños colaterales
Public health
Salud pública
Funding
Financiamiento
Ciencias Biomédicas
Farji Brener, Alejandro
Amador Vargas, Sabrina
Collateral damage: has the COVID-19 pandemic more strongly impacted medical research than other scientific areas
topic_facet COVID-19
Pandemic
Pandemia
Collateral damage
Daños colaterales
Public health
Salud pública
Funding
Financiamiento
Ciencias Biomédicas
description The principle of resource allocation states that diversion of resources to attend a function may compromise others. The COVID-19 pandemic required a rapid response with a justifiable relocation of equipment, funds and human resources. Based on the ecological principle of allocation, we tested whether the relocation of resources to support COVID-19 research was more detrimental to medical research than to research in other scientific areas. We compared the yearly number of published articles from 2015 to 2021 using disease-related keywords and non-medical scientific keywords. Contrary to the expectation, we found an abrupt reduction in the publication rates in all research areas from 2019 to 2020 or 2021, compared to the pre-pandemic period (2015–2019). The allocation effect on medical research may be overshadowed by stronger effects of the pandemic, or it may become evident in the coming years. The drastic reduction in published papers could have negative consequences for scientific advancements, including understanding and curing diseases other than COVID-19 that strongly affect humanity.
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title Collateral damage: has the COVID-19 pandemic more strongly impacted medical research than other scientific areas
title_short Collateral damage: has the COVID-19 pandemic more strongly impacted medical research than other scientific areas
title_full Collateral damage: has the COVID-19 pandemic more strongly impacted medical research than other scientific areas
title_fullStr Collateral damage: has the COVID-19 pandemic more strongly impacted medical research than other scientific areas
title_full_unstemmed Collateral damage: has the COVID-19 pandemic more strongly impacted medical research than other scientific areas
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