Sleeping Beauties of Coronavirus Research
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 phenomen...
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| author | Mohsen Fazeli-Varzaneh Ali Ghorbi Marcel Ausloos Emanuel Sallinger Sahar Vahdati |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b6215f5ced714f7f8be9f6a9d871536d2022-12-22T04:06:19ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362021-01-019211922120510.1109/ACCESS.2021.30529189328433Sleeping Beauties of Coronavirus ResearchMohsen Fazeli-Varzaneh0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8614-8513Ali Ghorbi1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1411-575XMarcel Ausloos2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9973-0019Emanuel Sallinger3Sahar Vahdati4Department of Knowledge and Information Science, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, IranDepartment of Knowledge and Information Science, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, IranSchool of Business, University of Leicester, Leicester, U.K.Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien, Vienna, AustriaNature-Inspired Machine Intelligence, Institute of Applied Informatics (InfAI), Dresden, GermanyA “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.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9328433/Beauty scorebibliometriccoronavirusCOVID-19sleeping beautyactivity index |
| spellingShingle | Mohsen Fazeli-Varzaneh Ali Ghorbi Marcel Ausloos Emanuel Sallinger Sahar Vahdati Sleeping Beauties of Coronavirus Research IEEE Access Beauty score bibliometric coronavirus COVID-19 sleeping beauty activity index |
| title | Sleeping Beauties of Coronavirus Research |
| title_full | Sleeping Beauties of Coronavirus Research |
| title_fullStr | Sleeping Beauties of Coronavirus Research |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sleeping Beauties of Coronavirus Research |
| title_short | Sleeping Beauties of Coronavirus Research |
| title_sort | sleeping beauties of coronavirus research |
| topic | Beauty score bibliometric coronavirus COVID-19 sleeping beauty activity index |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9328433/ |
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