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authors: Böhm, Michael; Ewen, Sebastian; Schweitzer, Armin; Katus, Hugo
title: Scientific publication activity during COVID-19 shutdown
date: 2020-11-25
journal: Clin Res Cardiol
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-020-01707-9
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over time and cannot be explained by an abnormal increase of submission rates to this Journal (Fig. 1b) . In parallel, there was a shorter review time and shorter time to decision for acceptance or rejection of journal articles (Fig. 1c) . As submissions in 50% of the cases come from other countries, the global shutdown had a positive effect of increased scientific writing activities as well as of accelerated handling of scientific information. This observation cannot lead to the conclusion that a shutdown improves scientific quality or activity but it could be an indication that travel and meeting activities and scientific writing and publishing are competing for time of authors, reviewers, scientists and clinicians.

Herewith, the editors of Clinical Research in Cardiology like to express their gratitude to all authors, reviewers and staff of Springer Scientific Journals for putting so much effort in the generation of rapid review processes, high quality reviews and, thus, important contributions to clinical research and, thus, excellence in patient care. Acknowledgements Open Access funding provided by Projekt DEAL.

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