General medical publications during COVID-19 show increased dissemination despite lower validation

• Nan Gai,

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

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Kazuyoshi Aoyama,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Program in Child Health Evaluative Sciences, SickKids Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• David Faraoni,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Neil M. Goldenberg,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Program in Cell Biology, SickKids Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• David N. Levin,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Jason T. Maynes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Program in Molecular Medicine, SickKids Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Mark J. McVey,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Program in Translational Medicine, SickKids Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Farrukh Munshey,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Asad Siddiqui,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Timothy Switzer,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Benjamin E. Steinberg

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: benjamin.steinberg@sickkids.ca

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Program in Neuroscience and Mental Health, SickKids Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3070-0548

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