The Covid‐19 pandemic and publishing in nutrition and dietetics

Bad science: time for our community to do better

“…In a recent editorial, I reflected on the significant increase in the submission and publication of research papers in nutrition and dietetics which was associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. 1 This trend was an acceleration of an existing upswing in paper submissions which has seen publication in our discipline increase by 2.6-fold in a decade. For the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, this has meant that the number of submissions received each year has increased from 250 to over 700.…”