Fazeli-Varzaneh Mohsen, Ghorbi Ali, Ausloos Marcel, Sallinger Emanuel, Vahdati Sahar
Department of Knowledge and Information ScienceFaculty of ManagementUniversity of Tehran Tehran 1417466191 Iran.
School of BusinessUniversity of Leicester Leicester LE2 1RQ U.K.
IEEE Access. 2021 Jan 19;9:21192-21205. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3052918. eCollection 2021.
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.
在科学领域，“睡美人”（SB）是一个比喻，用来形容一份长期相对未被相关领域关注的学术出版物；这份出版物处于“沉睡”状态。然而，由于某种现象的出现，这样一份“被遗忘”的出版物可能会突然成为科学关注的焦点；“睡美人”被“唤醒”了。目前，存在一些特定的科学领域，其中的“睡美人”被唤醒了。例如，随着世界正在经历由严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2（SARS-CoV-2）引发的2019冠状病毒病全球大流行，关于冠状病毒的出版物似乎被唤醒了。因此，可以提出具有科学意义的问题：这些出版物是与冠状病毒相关的“睡美人”吗？此外，虽然关于其他冠状病毒有大量文献，但似乎没有对2019冠状病毒病进行全面调查，尤其是在“睡美人”的背景下。如今，这类“睡美人”论文甚至可用于维持关于2019冠状病毒病的文献综述和/或科学论断。在我们的研究中，为了找出相关的“睡美人”，我们使用了“美分”（B分）度量。还计算了活动指数（AI）和相对专业化指数（RSI），以比较出现这类“睡美人”的国家。结果表明，这些“睡美人”大多在当前疫情（由严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒或SARS-CoV-1引发）之前发表，并于2020年被唤醒。除了列出最重要的“睡美人”，我们还展示了它们来自哪些国家和机构，以及这类“睡美人”的最多产作者。还讨论了具有最高B分的“睡美人”的被引趋势。
