COVID-19 Impact on Research and Publication Ethics

COVID-19 has been a full scale human tragedy. Challenges COVID-19 have exposed human to them are new and perhaps, it is a necessity for the research community of different disciplines to study this phenomenon. The impacts of this disease on human life cannot be remedied for many years which are to come. It has been more than one-year mankind is facing a new disease that has affected all aspects of his life and one may claim the human community that boasted on inventing modern diagnostic and treatment technologies is still, simply, in a state of shock.COVID-19 once again proved science has still a long way to go. Furthermore, COVID-19 has affected the path of medicine and research as well. This paper is a brief outline of challenges COVID-19 have created in publication ethics.