Tiwari Punit, Kaur Harmeet
Department of Orthopaedics, Maharishi Markandeshwar Medical College and Hospital, Kumarhatti, Solan, Himachal Pradesh India.
Department of Radiodiagnosis, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bathinda, Punjab India.
SN Compr Clin Med. 2020;2(12):2511-2513. doi: 10.1007/s42399-020-00656-8. Epub 2020 Nov 27.
The entire world is currently experiencing difficult times with respect to physical, mental, and socio-economic health. The rapid spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) since early 2020 caught the world by surprise. While there are promising developments, to date, there is no available drug or vaccine, and researchers are working around the clock to develop a solution. Sadly, all these crucial efforts are being affected and, at times, misguided and derailed by the publication of fake articles by so-called researchers and perhaps the mismanagement by authentic and predatory journals. The problem is that genuine and good quality articles are getting lost in the crowd. More than ever, it is now the time to bring in stricter controls and to follow due diligence before allowing articles into the public domain. At the same time, it has become life-saving to separate the wheat from the chaff so that the genuine studies of first-hand experience of handling and management of COVID-19 patients, and authentic research is not submerged in this flood of unreliable publications.
目前，整个世界在身体、心理和社会经济健康方面都正经历着艰难时期。自2020年初以来，严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2（SARS-CoV-2）的迅速传播让全世界措手不及。虽然有一些令人鼓舞的进展，但迄今为止，尚无可用的药物或疫苗，研究人员正在夜以继日地努力寻找解决方案。可悲的是，所有这些关键努力都受到了影响，有时还被所谓研究人员发表的虚假文章误导和偏离了方向，或许也受到了正规期刊和掠夺性期刊管理不善的影响。问题在于，真正高质量的文章在众多文章中被淹没了。现在比以往任何时候都更需要加强更严格的管控，并在文章进入公共领域之前进行尽职调查。与此同时，去伪存真变得至关重要，这样一来，关于COVID-19患者处理和管理的第一手经验的真实研究以及可靠的研究才不会被大量不可靠的出版物所淹没。
