COVID-19 early treatment journals

Unprofitable treatments face publication hurdles. Authors report rejections without review after months-long delays. This list of journals open to publishing positive results for low-cost treatments may be used to find high-quality venues with less bias against unprofitable treatments.

Nutrients (h5-index 207)

Vitamin D (12) Akbar et al., Mingiano et al., Baralić et al., De Nicolò et al., De Niet et al., Parant et al., Karonova et al., Jimenez et al., Alcala-Diaz et al., Sulli et al., Ling et al., Annweiler et al.

Probiotics Catinean et al.

Vitamin C Sharif et al.

Diet Jagielski et al.

Exercise Nguyen et al.

PLOS ONE (h5-index 225)

Metformin (3) Dimnjaković et al., Sandhu et al., Morrison et al.

Hydroxychloroquine (3) AlShehhi et al., Lavilla Olleros et al., AbdelGhaffar et al.

Colchicine (3) Rahman et al., Manenti et al., Valerio Pascua et al.

Sleep (2) Marcus et al., Gao et al.

Ibuprofen Campbell et al.

Exercise Christensen et al.

Aspirin Osborne et al.

Ivermectin Behera et al.

Journal of Clinical Medicine (h5-index 146)

Hydroxychloroquine (3) Taieb et al., De Rosa et al., Burdick et al.

Exercise (2) Frish et al., Cho et al.

Sleep Atceken et al.

Saline Tanni et al.

Antihistamine H1RA Sánchez-Rico et al.

Melatonin Bologna et al.

Lactoferrin Rosa et al.

Vitamin D Sánchez-Zuno et al.

Colchicine Brunetti et al.

Antiandrogen Vicenzi et al.

International Journal of Infectious Diseases (h5-index 129)

Ivermectin (5) Efimenko et al., Seet et al., Biber et al., Lima-Morales et al., Ahmed et al.

Hydroxychloroquine (5) Rouamba et al., Naggie et al., Lammers et al., D'Arminio Monforte et al., Arshad et al.

Zinc Stambouli et al.

Melatonin Hasan et al.

Favipiravir Udwadia et al.

Scientific Reports (h5-index 221)

Vitamin D (4) Gibbons et al., Hafezi et al., Loucera et al., Vasheghani et al.

Metformin (2) Ma et al., Ando et al.

Nitric Oxide Wolak et al.

Propolis Silveira et al.

Povidone-Iodine Matsuyama et al.

Indomethacin Ravichandran et al.

Diet Yamamoto et al.

Phthalocyanine da Silva Santos et al.

Cureus (h5-index 96)

Ivermectin (4) Kerr et al., Ahsan et al., Morgenstern et al., Behera et al.

Antiandrogen (3) Cadegiani et al., Cadegiani et al., Cadegiani et al.

Hydroxychloroquine (2) Charif et al., Satti et al.

Vitamin C (2) Ried et al., Kumari et al.

Famotidine Pahwani et al.

Frontiers in Pharmacology (h5-index 133)

Ursodeoxycholic acid Li et al.

Azvudine Wei et al.

Quercetin Di Pierro et al.

Nigella Sativa Said et al.

Fluvoxamine Pineda et al.

Hydroxychloroquine Go et al.

Camostat Karolyi et al.

Vitamin D Khan et al.

Favipiravir Chen et al.

Curcumin Pawar et al.

Vitamin C Zhao et al.

Frontiers in Medicine (h5-index 97)

Antiandrogen (2) Lee et al., Jeon et al.

Probiotics (2) Ceccarelli et al., d'Ettorre et al.

Azvudine de Souza et al.

Diet Zargarzadeh et al.

Ivermectin Rezai et al.

Povidone-Iodine Elsersy et al.

Nitazoxanide Rocco et al.

Zinc Gordon et al.

Thermotherapy Huang et al.

Phytotherapy Research (h5-index 84)

Nigella Sativa (4) Daneshfard et al., Chandra et al., Karimi et al., Ashraf et al.

Curcumin (3) Sadeghizadeh et al., Chitre et al., Saber-Moghaddam et al.

Propolis Kosari et al.

Colchicine Pourdowlat et al.

Andrographolide Zhang et al.

Journal of Infection (h5-index 108)

Azvudine (2) Ren et al., Dian et al.

Favipiravir Hobbs et al.

Ivermectin Hayward et al.

Vitamin D Bhat et al.

N-acetylcysteine Avdeev et al.

Aspirin Kevorkian et al.

Nitric Oxide Winchester et al.

Hydroxychloroquine Lora-Tamayo et al.

Journal of Medical Virology (h5-index 156)

Azvudine Yang et al.

N-acetylcysteine Panahi et al.

Montelukast Kerget et al.

Ivermectin Ozer et al.

Chlorhexidine Huang et al.

Aspirin Haji Aghajani et al.

Metformin Bramante et al.

Nitazoxanide Elalfy et al.

Hydroxychloroquine Ferreira et al.

BMC Infectious Diseases (h5-index 88)

Ivermectin (3) Wijewickrema et al., de la Rocha et al., Okumuş et al.

Hydroxychloroquine (2) van Halem et al., Ip et al.

Diet Darand et al.

Fluvoxamine Farahani et al.

Vitamin D Campi et al.

Frontiers in Nutrition (h5-index 91)

Diet (5) Aghajani et al., Barania Adabi et al., Tadbir Vajargah et al., Ebrahimzadeh et al., Hou et al.

Curcumin Gérain et al.

Vitamin D Din Ujjan et al.

Antiandrogen Hsieh et al.

BMJ Open (h5-index 125)

Exercise (5) Malisoux et al., Hamrouni et al., af Geijerstam et al., Lobelo et al., Ho et al.

Metformin Wallace et al.

Zinc Mulhem et al.

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents (h5-index 77)

Hydroxychloroquine (4) Dhibar et al., Catteau et al., Ly et al., Davido et al.

Ivermectin Hellwig et al.

Azithromycin Sekhavati et al.

Zinc Derwand et al.

eClinicalMedicine (h5-index 110)

Fluvoxamine Wannigama et al.

Azvudine Sun et al.

Camostat Terada et al.

Nitazoxanide Blum et al.

Ivermectin Chaccour et al.

Hydroxychloroquine Guisado-Vasco et al.

JAMA Network Open (h5-index 177)

Colchicine (2) Diaz et al., Deftereos et al.

Exercise Muñoz-Vergara et al.

Sleep Wang et al.

Aspirin Chow et al.

Fluvoxamine Oskotsky et al.

Frontiers in Public Health (h5-index 126)

Hydroxychloroquine Mehrizi et al.

Alkalinization Wang et al.

Exercise Park et al.

Vitamin D Arroyo-Díaz et al.

Ivermectin Mayer et al.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (h5-index 229)

Vitamin D (2) Efird et al., Leal-Martínez et al.

Exercise Pitanga et al.

Lactoferrin Campione et al.

Vitamin C Aldwihi et al.

Open Forum Infectious Diseases (h5-index 72)

Hydroxychloroquine (3) Bowen et al., MacFadden et al., Falcone et al.

Favipiravir Finberg et al.

Fluvoxamine Seftel et al.

Infection and Drug Resistance (h5-index 71)

Azvudine Zhang et al.

Diet Wang et al.

Ivermectin Aref et al.

Sleep Mohsin et al.

Microorganisms (h5-index 107)

Ursodeoxycholic acid Zheng et al.

Fluvoxamine Tsiakalos et al.

Azvudine Shao et al.

Metformin Pinchera et al.

Journal of Infection and Public Health (h5-index 73)

Fluvoxamine Siripongboonsitti et al.

Exercise Kapusta et al.

Favipiravir Alattar et al.

Colchicine García-Posada et al.

Biomedicines (h5-index 79)

Metformin Greco et al.

Hydroxychloroquine Obrișcă et al.

Probiotics Trinchieri et al.

Vitamin D Oristrell et al.

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (h5-index 87)

Vitamin D (2) Subramanian et al., Ma et al.

Diet Yue et al.

Sunlight Ma et al.

Internal and Emergency Medicine (h5-index 51)

Hydroxychloroquine (3) Corradini et al., Núñez-Gil et al., Ayerbe et al.

Vitamin C Hess et al.

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (h5-index 130)

Hydroxychloroquine (3) Ugarte-Gil et al., Strangfeld et al., Huang et al.

Colchicine Scarsi et al.

Journal of Endocrinological Investigation (h5-index 57)

Vitamin D (3) Oristrell et al., Ünsal et al., Mazziotti et al.

Antiandrogen Davarpanah et al.

International Journal of General Medicine (h5-index 45)

Quercetin (2) Di Pierro et al., Di Pierro et al.

Colchicine Pascual-Figal et al.

Iota-carrageenan Figueroa et al.

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Azvudine (2) Zhang et al., Xu et al.

Ursodeoxycholic acid Li et al.

Inflammopharmacology (h5-index 48)

Vitamin C Uz et al.

Melatonin Ameri et al.

Antiandrogen Gomaa et al.

Diabetes Care

Metformin (3) Johnson et al., Wong et al., Wander et al.

Virology Journal

Ursodeoxycholic acid Moon et al.

Quercetin Zheng et al.

Antihistamine H1RA Loucera et al.

The Clinical Respiratory Journal (h5-index 26)

Budesonide Bai et al.

Selenium Vaisi et al.

Montelukast Soltani et al.

BMC Nutrition (h5-index 29)

Zinc Seifi et al.

Probiotics Kolesnyk et al.

Exercise Hegazy et al.

QJM: An International Journal of Medicine (h5-index 41)

Saline Jing et al.

Vitamin C Tan et al.

Ivermectin Babalola et al.

New Microbes and New Infections (h5-index 43)

Hydroxychloroquine (2) Meeus et al., Simova et al.

Nitazoxanide Cadegiani et al.

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice (h5-index 80)

Metformin (2) Yen et al., Jiang et al.

Hydroxychloroquine Sheshah et al.

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Favipiravir (2) Golan et al., Ivashchenko et al.

Zinc Abdallah et al.

European Journal of Pharmacology (h5-index 76)

Curcumin Abbaspour-Aghdam et al.

Quercetin Shohan et al.

Melatonin Hosseini et al.

Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy

Metformin Ventura-López et al.

Vitamin D Torres et al.

Propolis Silveira et al.

Frontiers in Endocrinology (h5-index 123)

Metformin (3) Shestakova et al., Wong et al., Crouse et al.

Archivos de Bronconeumología (h5-index 39)

Aspirin Lal et al.

Hydroxychloroquine Signes-Costa et al.

Ivermectin Khan et al.

Archives of Medical Research (h5-index 51)

Vitamin D Villasis-Keever et al.

Aspirin de Jesús Ascencio-Montiel et al.

Melatonin Farnoosh et al.

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Hydroxychloroquine (3) Ebongue et al., Szente Fonseca et al., Lagier et al.

Infectious Diseases and Therapy (h5-index 47)

Exercise Salgado-Aranda et al.

Ibuprofen Salva et al.

Favipiravir Shinkai et al.

British Journal of Sports Medicine (h5-index 117)

Exercise (3) Steenkamp et al., Lee et al., Sallis et al.

Chest (h5-index 103)

Antiandrogen Ghandehari et al.

Ivermectin Rajter et al.

Melatonin Jehi et al.

BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health (h5-index 31)

Diet Kim et al.

Sleep Kim et al.

Probiotics Louca et al.

Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B

Azvudine (2) Zhu et al., Zong et al.

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Metformin Harmon et al.

Vitamin D Hunt et al.

PLOS Medicine (h5-index 114)

Hydroxychloroquine Schilling et al.

Favipiravir Lowe et al.

Frontiers in Immunology

Spirulina Aghasadeghi et al.

Vitamin C Majidi et al.

Advanced Science

Azvudine Wu et al.

N-acetylcysteine Altay et al.

Heliyon

Colchicine Vaziri et al.

Hydroxychloroquine Chechter et al.

Blood

Ursodeoxycholic acid Gao et al.

Aspirin Goshua et al.

Minerva Medica (h5-index 28)

Probiotics (2) Di Pierro et al., Di Pierro et al.

Journal of Personalized Medicine

Alkalinization Pantazopoulos et al.

Exercise Kontopoulou et al.

Clinical Infection in Practice

Hydroxychloroquine AlQadheeb et al.

Favipiravir Rahman et al.

Medicina Clínica

Exercise Cardoso et al.

Hydroxychloroquine Azaña Gómez et al.

Pan African Medical Journal

Azithromycin Madamombe et al.

Hydroxychloroquine Ashinyo et al.

Clinical Nutrition ESPEN (h5-index 52)

Zinc Asoudeh et al.

Diet Magaña et al.

Lung India

Budesonide Samajdar et al.

Zinc Elavarasi et al.

Medicina

Diet Mohajeri et al.

Vitamin D Sarhan et al.

Clinical Rheumatology

Hydroxychloroquine (2) Isnardi et al., Ferri et al.

Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism

Metformin (2) Zaccardi et al., Ojeda-Fernández et al.

The Professional Medical Journal

Ivermectin (2) Akhtar et al., Faisal et al.

Pakistan Journal of Medical and Health Sciences

Ivermectin Qadeer et al.

Nigella Sativa Al-Haidari et al.

Indian Journal of Community Medicine

Saline Chalageri et al.

Hydroxychloroquine Yadav et al.

Healthcare

Zinc Alahmari et al.

Vitamin D Fiore et al.

BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care

Metformin (2) Yeh et al., Wang et al.

Bratislava Medical Journal (h5-index 24)

Favipiravir Usanma Koban et al.

Vitamin D Yildiz et al.

Trials

Curcumin Askari et al.

Vitamin A Beigmohammadi et al.

European Journal of Medical and Health Sciences

Spirulina Mazokopakis et al.

Ivermectin Alam et al.

Complementary Therapies in Medicine (h5-index 57)

Curcumin Sankhe et al.

Nigella Sativa Koshak et al.

COVID

Resveratrol Thomas et al.

Ibuprofen Leal et al.

Gut

Famotidine Brennan et al.

Diet Merino et al.

The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

Hydroxychloroquine Omma et al.

Colchicine Karakaş et al.

The Lancet

Aspirin RECOVERY Collaborative Group et al.

Budesonide Yu et al.

Journal of Intensive Care Medicine

Budesonide Al Sulaiman et al.

Aspirin Al Harthi et al.

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Exercise (2) Ahmadi et al., Hamer et al.

The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (h5-index 52)

Vitamin D (2) Sinaci et al., Annweiler et al.

Journal of the Indian Medical Association

Indomethacin Ravichandran et al.

Ivermectin Mondal et al.

Journal of Physical Activity and Health

Exercise (2) Brandenburg et al., Halabchi et al.

Medicine

Thermotherapy Dominguez-Nicolas et al.

Aspirin Liu et al.

Gastroenterology

N-acetylcysteine Pellegrini et al.

Famotidine Freedberg et al.

International Immunopharmacology

Favipiravir Zhao et al.

Hydroxychloroquine Mokhtari et al.

Aging

Vitamin C Gao et al.

Vitamin D Cangiano et al.

Pulmonologiya

N-acetylcysteine Gaynitdinova et al.

Exercise Tret'yakov et al.

Heart & Lung

Vitamin B12 Jang et al.

Hydroxychloroquine Ñamendys-Silva et al.

Science China Life Sciences

Hydroxychloroquine (2) Yu et al., Yu et al.

Annals of Oncology

Antiandrogen (2) Patel et al., Montopoli et al.

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