Covid-19 has changed peer review practices....but unlike Portugal many countries are not helping

"a recent analysis ...found that COVID-19 articles published since January 2020 are taking 57 fewer days on average from submission to publication compared to non-pandemic articles published before October 2019”

https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/how-coronavirus-is-changing-research-practices-and-publishing

On this respect let´s not forget what countries are doing the major part of the altruistic review effort. List below. 13 countries still have a ratio below 1000 reviews !

European Country........Ratio (Revised papers in the last 12 months /million population)

1-Portugal...........................3500

2-Denmark..........................1752

3-Spain…………………..….1631

4-Italy...................................1580
5-Cyprus..............................1497
6-Malta................................1435

7-Sweden............................1430

8-Finland.............................1404

9-Switzerland......................1400

10-Norway……………...…..1337

11-Croatia............................1196

12-Czech Rep......................1137

13-UK..................................1107
14-Luxembourg...................1073
15-Estonia...........................1044

16-Belgium……………...……977

17-Netherlands………………960
18-Iceland.............................922
19-Romania..........................913

20-Austria…………………….913
21-Lithuania..........................816

22-Poland………………….…703
23-Serbia...............................665
24-Hungary............................559

25-Germany………..…..........527
26-Bulgaria............................422

27-France…………………….407
28-Latvia...............................296
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https://publons.com/country/?order_by=top_reviewers