Kronk Clair, Keyes Os, Marathe Megh
Department of Population Health Science and Policy (PHSP), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029-5674, United States.
Evans Lab, Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854, United States.
J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2025 Jul 1;32(7):1199-1205. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocaf089.
To determine how much of the current biomedical literature would be flagged or require modification in relation to the presence of terms from leaked lists prepared by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Security Administration (NSA) in early 2025.
We searched PubMed (from 1996 to 2024) for all records that match at least one of the given terms, combined the terms and analyzed yearly and total frequency.
At least 36.3% of all biomedical literature analyzed, representing more than 10 million records, would be flagged for review or modification with the given term lists. It is conservatively estimated that such term lists could impact more than 2.7 million biomedical publications over the next four years.
Censorship of scientific findings and the use of term lists to judge the content of scientific materials could significantly impede scientific progress.
Future research should investigate the long-term implications of, and interim strategies used to navigate, the imposition of censorship on the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge.
确定到2025年初，当前生物医学文献中有多少会因出现疾病控制中心（CDC）、国家科学基金会（NSF）和国家安全局（NSA）编制的泄露列表中的术语而被标记或需要修改。
我们在PubMed（1996年至2024年）中搜索了所有与至少一个给定术语匹配的记录，合并这些术语并分析年度和总频率。
在分析的所有生物医学文献中，至少36.3%（代表超过1000万条记录）会因给定的术语列表而被标记以供审查或修改。保守估计，在未来四年中，此类术语列表可能会影响超过270万篇生物医学出版物。
对科学发现进行审查以及使用术语列表来评判科学材料的内容可能会严重阻碍科学进步。
未来的研究应调查对科学知识的生产和传播实施审查的长期影响以及用于应对的临时策略。
