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Dynamics of Preprints

COVID-19 Preprints: How the Topics Change (June Update)July 8, 2020
To the lockdown consequences and drug trials
COVID-19 Preprints: How the Topics Change (May Update)May 21, 2020
From disease symptoms to asymptomatic transmission modeling based on mobile data

Virus SuperspreadingJuly 1, 2020
A closed space with poor ventilation, a large crowd. And one person feels unwell – or doesn’t yet, but will in a few days. How many people will they infect?
Which Viruses Like It HotJune 15, 2020
Discovering how the weather, seasonal, and long-term climate change affects virus transmission
Epidemiology Models: A HistoryJune 5, 2020
Tracing the evolution of epidemiological modeling from its origins to the present
Epidemiology Models: Additions to SIR ModelingMay 28, 2020
Explaining demographic, spatial and probabilistic models of epidemics and vaccination
Epidemiology Models: SIR ModelingMay 4, 2020
We open a series of posts on modeling epidemics. Read the review of papers that use the most popular model

Bats, Encroachment into Habitat, and New Pandemics. Part 2May 16, 2020
Here we review why cutting down tropical forests results in new epidemics, where they are predicted to start, and how to reduce the likelihood of virus transmission from bats to humans
Bats, Encroachment into Habitat, and New Pandemics. Part 1May 12, 2020
How does human intervention in wild habitat affect the emergence of new pandemics? We explain this on the example of epidemics that have spread from bats. In the first part of the review, we discuss whether bats are “special” as hosts of the viruses, and how the environment affects the likelihood of infection spillover

How Do We Do Science Mapping?April 12, 2020
Though we do not specialize in epidemic research, we systematically search scientific literature on a given topic and visualize the connections between publications. In these networks, called science maps, we distinguish clusters that represent meaningful research fields, and describe them in the reviews. Here we explain the details of our procedure.