Will the pandemic permanently alter scientific publishing?

Will the pandemic permanently alter scientific publishing?



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Is this scientific publishing’s new normal?

The COVID-19 crisis has underlined just how fast and open science publishing can be. Preprint servers are overflowing with preliminary results, peer review is proceeding in record time and many journals have made relevant research free to read. The question is whether these changes are here to stay.
Nature | 6 min read

The risk to China’s race to the top of science

When COVID-19 hit, China was close to surpassing the United States as the leading science funder, two years after it took top place as the biggest producer of scientific articles. The pandemic could slow that momentum by shrinking funding for scientific research in China, cooling international cooperation and squeezing the pipeline of Chinese students to other countries. But an influx of money from the private sector — and the irrepressible desire for scientific collaboration — could prevent lasting harm to Chinese science.
Nature | 5 min read

Read more in our series on science after the pandemic:

• Universities will never be the same (9 min read)
• How scientific conferences will survive (5 min read)
• The pandemic will make or break research funding (5 min read)