Sleeping Beauties in science

Author: van Raan, Anthony

Source: Scientometrics, Volume 59, Number 3, March 2004 , pp. 467-472(6)

Publisher: Springer

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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'.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:SCIE.0000018543.82441.f1

Affiliations: 1: Email: vanraan@cwts.leidenuniv.nl

Publication date: 2004-03-01