The journal, Rapid Reviews: COVID-19, will use artificial intelligence to scour preprint servers for promising research and allow it to be peer reviewed. Preprint studies have proliferated amid the Covid-19 pandemic, raising concerns about misinformation.

The dizzying amount of research that has emerged on Covid-19, covering everything from epidemiology to new treatments and detection methods, has been invaluable to advancing understanding of the disease among researchers, health authorities and the public. But the proliferation of especially preprint research has also enabled the spread of misinformation, and a newly launched journal aims to combat it.

The MIT Press said in a blog post Monday that it and the University of California Berkeley had launched the journal, Rapid Reviews: COVID-19, or RR:C19 for short, which it described as an open-access overlay journal designed to accelerate peer review of research in Covid-19.

Source: medcitynews.com