Research network ScienceOpen has announced six new collections on Point-Of-Care Testing technologies curated and organised by a team led by Dr. Nitika Pant Pai, a tenured Associate Professor at McGill University in the Department of Medicine and a Research Scientist at the MUHC Research Institute, as active contributions to the mission of open science medicine research for a positive global impact in healthcare. Her trainees, Anna De Waal, Alexie Kim, Nandi Belinsky, joined her in curating this collection.
Point-Of-Care Testing (POCT) technologies have revolutionised testing for many infectious diseases by providing a much faster access to test results, allowing for rapid results and - where integrated in clinical settings - help expedite clinical decision making. Dr. Nitika Pant Pai emphasized the importance of POCT for expanded access, rapid clinical decision making for all key infectious diseases (HIV, STDs, NTDs, tuberculosis) and also for antimicrobial resistance detection and surveillance globally.
To further open scientific research and access to all the information on POCT for HIV/STBBI/NTDs/AMR and to encourage people to get tested, Dr. Pant Pai has been the collection editor of 'Point-Of-Care Testing for HIV' on ScienceOpen since 2017. Now, she is taking the POCT project on ScienceOpen a step further by launching a super collection 'Point-Of-Care Testing for Infectious Diseases' that features six new Point-Of-Care Testing collections for HIV Self-Testing, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), Hepatitis, neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and Tuberculosis.
Every collection on ScienceOpen is assigned a CrossRef DOI, becoming a part of the editor's ORCID record. Using the professional networking platform MyScienceOpen, editors can then comment and write editorials on each collection, and invite any researcher to publicly review an article in their collection. Collection editors can also trace how their collection is performing by tracking the number of articles, views, peer reviews, recommendations, social media activity, and the overall Altmetric score presented in the summary statistics.
Dr. Madhukar Pai, Professor McGill University and Director of McGill International TB Center, joins the initiative as the lead Editor of the TB collection.
ScienceOpen highlights the new Point-Of-Care collections in its research discovery environment of over 49 million articles and records as a successful researcher-led initiative to optimize the scientific and social impact of medical study in this field.
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