Sleeping Beauties in science

Anthony F. J. van Raan ()
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Anthony F. J. van Raan: Leiden University

Scientometrics, 2004, vol. 59, issue 3, No 9, 467-472

Abstract: Abstract A ‘Sleeping Beauty in Science’ is a publication that goes unnoticed (‘sleeps’) for a long time and then, almost suddenly, attracts a lot of attention (‘is awakened by a prince’). We here report the -to our knowledge- first extensive measurement of the occurrence of Sleeping Beauties in the science literature. We derived from the measurements an ‘awakening’ probability function and identified the ‘most extreme Sleeping Beauty so far’.

Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1023/B:SCIE.0000018543.82441.f1

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