COVID-19 L_OVE

COVID-19 L_OVE aggregates and classifies scholarly articles and study records related to COVID-19 to support systematic reviews and living evidence syntheses.

Key Features:

• Extensive Repository: As of September 20, 2021, the platform hosts over 430,000 articles related to COVID-19.
• High Comprehensiveness: Demonstrated 99.67% coverage of studies included in systematic reviews conducted in April 2021.
• High Currency: Reported 96.48% of articles were available in the repository at the time those systematic reviews were conducted.
• Specialized Coverage for Randomised Trials: Achieved 100% comprehensiveness and currency for randomized trials in the evaluated sample.

Scientific Applications:

• Systematic reviews and meta-analyses: Provides a centralized collection of COVID-19 studies to identify and retrieve studies for evidence synthesis.
• Living evidence syntheses: Supports continuous updating of evidence by providing high coverage and currency of newly available COVID-19 literature.

Methodology:

Comprehensiveness and currency were evaluated using a representative sample of studies from systematic reviews published in April 2021 by determining the inclusion rate of individual studies within the repository and comparing those to the original sources used by the reviews.