Publication times for COVID-19 articles and associated preprints

These are two datasets of COVID-19 peer-reviewed journal and review articles and associated with them medRxiv and bioRxiv preprints. Datasets contain DOI of preprint and its published version, and publication times associated with each step: pre-submission time, review time, production stage time, and the elapsed time. One dataset was collected on 4 May 2021 and it includes a total of 4,031 deduplicated journal article-preprint pairs. Another dataset was collected on 19 October 2020 and it includes 1,099 journal article-preprint pairs. These files are associated with the submission of a manuscript "Publication Practices during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Expedited publishing or simply an early bird effect?" to the journal Learned Publishing in 2022.