论文标题
2020年之前的冠状病毒研究比以往任何时候都更有意义，尤其是在Covid-19的解释时
Coronavirus research before 2020 is more relevant than ever, especially when interpreted for COVID-19
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论文摘要
生物医学研究人员能够识别和表征Covid-19的速度显然是由于先前对其他冠状病毒的研究。早期的流行病学比较与以前的两种冠状病毒：严重的急性呼吸综合征（SARS）和中东呼吸道综合征（MERS），也使预测Covid-19的可能传播和致死性变得更加容易。本文评估了对先前冠状病毒研究的学术兴趣是否已转化为对主要原始材料的兴趣，并使用Mendeley读者计数以获得早期的学术影响证据。结果证实，SARS和MERS Research 2008-2017在2020年4月至5月的Mendeley读者的异常增长异常增加。但是，研究从SARS和MERS中学习Covid-19教训或将其用作Covid-19的基准比对SARS或MERS的主要研究产生了更多的学术利益。因此，在发现新疾病时解释先前相关研究的研究对于帮助研究人员了解其在新背景下的含义似乎特别重要。
The speed with which biomedical researchers were able to identify and characterise COVID-19 was clearly due to prior research with other coronaviruses. Early epidemiological comparisons with two previous coronaviruses, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), also made it easier to predict COVID-19's likely spread and lethality. This article assesses whether academic interest in prior coronavirus research has translated into interest in the primary source material, using Mendeley reader counts for early academic impact evidence. The results confirm that SARS and MERS research 2008-2017 experienced anomalously high increases in Mendeley readers in April-May 2020. Nevertheless, studies learning COVID-19 lessons from SARS and MERS or using them as a benchmark for COVID-19 have generated much more academic interest than primary studies of SARS or MERS. Thus, research that interprets prior relevant research for new diseases when they are discovered seems to be particularly important to help researchers to understand its implications in the new context.
