Sleeping Beauties of Coronavirus Research.
Beauty score
COVID-19
activity index
bibliometric
coronavirus
relative specialization index
sleeping beauty
Journal
IEEE access : practical innovations, open solutions
ISSN: 2169-3536
Titre abrégé: IEEE Access
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101639462
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
received:
23
11
2020
accepted:
15
12
2020
entrez:
17
11
2021
pubmed:
18
11
2021
medline:
18
11
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
A "Sleeping Beauty" (SB) in science is a metaphor for a scholarly publication that remains relatively unnoticed by the related communities for a long time; - the publication is "sleeping". However, suddenly due to the appearance of some phenomenon, such a "forgotten" publication may become a center of scientific attention; - the SB is "awakened". Currently, there are specific scientific areas for which sleeping beauties (SBs) are awakened. For example, as the world is experiencing the COVID-19 global pandemic (triggered by SARS-CoV-2), publications on coronaviruses appear to be awakened. Thus, one can raise questions of scientific interest: are these publications coronavirus related SBs? Moreover, while much literature exists on other coronaviruses, there seems to be no comprehensive investigation on COVID-19, - in particular in the context of SBs. Nowadays, such SB papers can be even used for sustaining literature reviews and/or scientific claims about COVID-19. In our study, in order to pinpoint pertinent SBs, we use the "beauty score" (B-score) measure. The Activity Index (AI) and the Relative Specialization Index (RSI) are also calculated to compare countries where such SBs appear. Results show that most of these SBs were published previously to the present epidemic time (triggered by SARS-CoV or SARS-CoV-1), and are awakened in 2020. Besides outlining the most important SBs, we show from what countries and institutions they originate, and the most prolific author(s) of such SBs. The citation trend of SBs that have the highest B-score is also discussed.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34786306
doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3052918
pmc: PMC8545245
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
21192-21205Informations de copyright
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