Scientific quality of COVID-19 and SARS CoV-2 publications in the highest impact medical journals during the early phase of the pandemic: A case control study

• Marko Zdravkovic ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marko Zdravkovic, Joana Berger-Estilita

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Management, University Medical Centre Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0033-7071

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• Joana Berger-Estilita ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marko Zdravkovic, Joana Berger-Estilita

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Bogdan Zdravkovic,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Management, University Medical Centre Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

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• David Berger

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: david.berger@insel.ch

  Affiliation Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0705-6341

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