Awakening sleeping beauties during the COVID-19 pandemic influences the citation impact of their references

In this research letter, we build upon recent studies about the sleeping beauties awakened by the COVID-19 pandemic. We prove that a peak of citations for sleeping beauties is associated with a sharp increase in the number of citations received by their references. This demonstrates the existence of...

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Autores principales: Turki, Houcemeddine, Hadj Taieb, Mohamed Ali, Ben Aouicha, Mohamed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9393101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36036021
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04501-8
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Sumario:In this research letter, we build upon recent studies about the sleeping beauties awakened by the COVID-19 pandemic. We prove that a peak of citations for sleeping beauties is associated with a sharp increase in the number of citations received by their references. This demonstrates the existence of a cascading activation of citation-based sleeping beauties.

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