New NIH Resource to Analyze COVID-19 Literature: The COVID-19 Portfolio Tool

George Santangelo, Ph.D., Director of NIH Office of Portfolio Analysis In the past few months, the scientific community has ramped up research in response to the SARS‑CoV‑2 pandemic; dozens of peer-reviewed articles and preprints on this topic are being added to the literature every day (Figure 1). This rapidly expanding effort has created a need for a human-curated resource to explore and analyze advances in SARS‑CoV‑2/COVID-19 research as they accumulate in real time. To address this need, the NIH Office of Portfolio Analysis (OPA) has assembled a comprehensive portfolio of COVID‑19 publications and preprints that is freely available to the public. The COVID-19 portfolio is updated daily with new literature selected for inclusion by subject matter experts. Figure 1. Rapid growth of COVID-19 peer-reviewed articles and preprints (graph is updated daily). This new resource is designed to provide maximum flexibility and ease-of-use for researchers. Users can take advantage of a full spectrum of Boolean, proximity, and other search methods to query full text and all available supplemental data, or they can limit their search to specific fields, including abstract, author affiliation, or last author. They can also drill down on data once a search is completed. Figure 2 shows a simple example: if a user is interested in analyzing only the peer-reviewed subset of search results, a single click on the “Peer Reviewed” option in the Source facet (circled in b...
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