Abstract
The Coronavirus disease 2 (Covid-19) pandemic has led to a massive rise in research in a bid to understand more about the new disease and cope better with the pandemic. The need to socially distance and limited human movement in open spaces since the COVID-19 outbreak have brought most forms of research to a standstill. While most research incentives have been directed towards research regarding the pandemic, diminished patient visits, have paralysed all the studies requiring personal and physical examination. Majority of the social interactions have been reduced to a screen, and this is also the new practice in the research realm. This unique situation calls for a need to re-examine research practices and reinvent novel methods for quality research. While it is prudent to step up research to understand the disease and its impact on varied conditions, the situation also necessitates a close watch for misinformation, erroneous reporting, and failure of ethical research. Moreover, there is a felt need to derive validated tools for remote assessment to minimise risk to the patients and physicians alike. In this brief, we discuss the perceived changes and potential areas for erroneous research reporting while providing possible solutions for fruitful research in the peri-pandemic period. We also identify new methods of conducting studies and the setbacks that could be faced while carrying out such tasks, including those of methodological, ethical and financial nature. We hope these may shape researcher perspectives and help them to conduct ethical and valid research in these, particularly trying times.