Abstract
In the COVID-19 situation, social and behavioral science evidence is accumulating rapidly through online data collection, but the options to share and publish this information are scarce. As a remedy, I recommend the adoption of micropublishing in the fields of social and behavioral sciences. While micropublishing has been gaining popularity, it is not yet widely accepted or utilized by existing academic journals. Greater implementation would improve the availability of data in the immediate COVID-19 era and establish a post-COVID-19 publishing methodology that could increase researcher and practitioner engagement in real time. I recommend micropublishing in a specific manner that bifurcates an experiment’s methodology or survey method from the subsequently published data based on that experiment protocol. Published findings could be presented in a series and edited as new data emerges. This publishing system promotes cumulative science. To provide a visual example that supports my argument, I created a demo journal with sample papers organized according to the structure I recommend. The demo journal has features—except a Digital Object Finder (DOI)—that make it possible to publish social and behavioral sciences research. It could be replicated for a newly established journal. Alternatively, existing journals could add a section dedicated to micropublication.
Highlights
The fast and wide spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a major threat to humankind
Various limitations have to be taken into consideration, online experiments and surveys enable researchers to collect diverse and comprehensive
I focus on “micropublishing,” which is a publishing method that specializes in the accumulation of data with minimal text
Summary
In the COVID-19 situation, social and behavioral science evidence is accumulating rapidly through online data collection, but the options to share and publish this information are scarce. Some journals associated with social behavioral studies are willing to publish COVID-19-related research through fast peer reviews (e.g., Chambers, 2020; “Science in the time of COVID-19,” 2020), and others have waived publication fees (e.g., Frontiers, 2020). In this context, micropublishing of academic papers has emerged. Distributed and overlapping findings should be aggregated in a series In this current environment, it is desirable to micropublish the first proposal paper that describes an experiment’s methodology or survey method and publish data based on that protocol in a series of subsequent papers.
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