the challenges of scientific works published during covid-19 pandemic

abstractthe covid-19 pandemic is one of the fundamental challenges of the personal and professional life of people all over the world, which requires accurate and fast policy making and planning. so, with the start of the covid-19 pandemic, experts in scientific environments tried to investigate the aspects of this disease in the shortest possible time. therefore, in many universities of medical sciences (iran), with the aim of presenting the results of researches, review process was facilitated. therefore, the speed in reviewing, publishing and using the results of research conducted during covid-19 pandemic, raises the concern especially by policymakers and even the general public that how reliable and valuable are these findings? the purpose of this article was to identifying the challenges of the scientific works published in this period in terms of content, methodology and the methods of approving and publishing them.