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Literature

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PubMed https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/... (Coronavirus specific search URL)
  • Articles referencing SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 in PubMed
  • Search results more specific to SARS-CoV-2 compared to the Europe PMC list shown below; Includes publications only since Dec 2019
  • Available also in NCBI SARS-CoV-2 Resources
LitCovid https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/
  • Comprehensive curated literature collection regarding the 2019 novel Coronavirus
  • PubMed search result (see above) is curated and classified assisted by machine-learning methods
  • Categories include mechanism, transmission, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, case report, and epidemic forecasting
  • Available also in NCBI SARS-CoV-2 Resources
Europe PMC: Coronavirus articles and preprints https://europepmc.org/... (Coronavirus specific search URL)
  • Coronavirus articles and preprints in Europe PMC
  • Includes ACE2 protein related publications
  • No publication date limit
  • Uses a much broader set of search terms than other resources (e.g., including SARS, MERS, and other coronaviruses) and contains many additional journals, resulting in many more search results than other sources
Resource for Coronavirus 2019 (RCoV19) from CNCB/BIG/NGDC https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/ncov/publication/
  • Contains more international and non-English journals than US-based repositories
  • Contains both pre-prints and published articles
CDC COVID-19 Research Articles Downloadable Database https://www.cdc.gov/library/researchguides/2019novelcoronavirus/researcharticles.html
  • Updated by systematically searching various bibliographic databases and hand searching selected grey literature sources
WHO Global Research Database https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/global-research-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov
  • The latest international multilingual scientific findings and knowledge on COVID-19
COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 preprints from medRxiv and bioRxiv https://connect.biorxiv.org/relate/content/181
  • Early access papers are not formally peer-reviewed; questions or concerns about the data or methodology are often presented in the comments, acting as real-time peer-review
  • Not easily filterable or searchable; best used through regular checking of newly released papers
COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) https://www.semanticscholar.org/cord19/get-started
  • Literature visualization, configurable literature feed, knowledge extraction, fact-checking
  • A powerful dashboard of tools to automatically extract and visualize knowledge from scientific literature
  • Developed by Semantic Scholar
Retraction Watch https://retractionwatch.com/retracted-coronavirus-covid-19-papers/
  • A list of retracted papers across all journals
  • Many retractions, especially for high-profile papers, also have context around the publication and subsequent retraction of the papers
  • Includes both journals and preprint servers
SAS COVID-19 Scientific Literature Search & Text Analysis https://www.sas.com/en_us/trials/software/scientific-literature/form.html
  • An AI-based tool for extracting and visualizing knowledge from scientific literature
  • Includes text analysis, network-based citation analysis, system-identified themes, expert-identified themes, numerical themes, and co-citation network
  • Account required
Dimensions research knowledge system https://covid-19.dimensions.ai/
  • AI-based categorization of scientific articles allowing fine-grained filtering of the articles