冠状病毒文献的睡眠美貌和时间演变 (Sleeping beauties and temporal evolution of the coronavirus literature)

Temporal evolution of the coronavirus literature over the last thirty years (N=43,769) is analyzed along with its subdomain of SARS-CoV-2 articles (N=27,460) and the subdomain of reviews and meta-analytic studies (N=1,027). (i) The analyses on the subset of SARS-CoV-2 literature identified studies published prior to 2020 that have now proven highly instrumental in the development of various clusters of publications linked to SARS-CoV-2. In particular, the so-called sleeping beauties of the coronavirus literature with an awakening in 2020 were identified, i.e., previously published studies of this literature that had remained relatively unnoticed for several years but gained sudden traction in 2020 in the wake of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak. (ii) The subset of 2020 SARS-CoV-2 articles is bibliographically distant from the rest of this literature published prior to 2020. Individual articles of the SARS-CoV-2 segment with a bridging role between the two bodies of articles (i.e., before and after 2020) are identifiable. (iii) Furthermore, the degree of bibliographic coupling within the 2020 SARS-CoV-2 cluster is much poorer compared to the cluster of articles published prior to 2020. This could, in part, be explained by the higher diversity of topics that are studied in relation to SARS-CoV-2 compared to the literature of coronaviruses published prior to the SARS-CoV-2 disease. This work demonstrates how scholarly efforts undertaken during peace time or prior to a disease outbreak could suddenly play a critical role in prevention and mitigation of health disasters caused by new diseases.

翻译：(一) 对2020年之前出版的SARS-COV-2类文献子集的分析,这些子集现已证明对与SARS-COV-2有关的各类出版物的开发非常有用。特别是,对2020年觉醒的CORS-2类病毒文献的所谓睡眠式美容(SARS-COV-2类文章)(N=27,460)及其子域,即以前出版的关于这种文献的研究,这些文献在SARS-COV-2爆发之后,多年来一直相对不受注意,但2020年突然上升了动力学研究(N=1,027)。 (二) 2020年之前出版的SARS-COV-2类文献子集子集查明了与2020年之前出版的SARS-CO-2类出版物的其余部分相比,SARV-2类病毒的所谓睡眠性美化,在2020年之前出版的SAR-2类文献与2020年之前的这一关键SAR-SAR-CO-CO-C-CO-C-CO-C-C-C-C-L-CO-C-C-C-L-L-C-CO-CO-C-L-C-C-I-I-C-I-L-CO-I-L-L-L-L-L-L-C-L-C-L-Lis-L-I-I-I-I-I-I)之间,可以比较起来,在2020年研究中,这一关键-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-S-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-