Data is becoming ever more critical and valuable for both scientists and health authorities searching for answers to the COVID-19 crisis. Due to difficulties in diagnosing this infection in populations around the world, initiatives supported by digital technologies have been developed by governments or private companies which enable the tracking of the public’s symptoms, contacts and movements. Considering the ...
Objective: investigates the use of persistent identifiers and Research Blogging by the Portuguese-language scientific blogosphere and their coverage by Altmetric through a survey of article citations in their posts.Methods: Starting from the list of blogs registered in the Scientific Blog Ring (Anel de Blogues Científicos - ABC) portal, Google searches were made in order to identify blogs in Portuguese that cit...