Sleeping Beauties in science

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New bibliometric tools for the assessment of national research performance: Database description, overview of indicators and first applications

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Advanced bibliometric methods as quantitative core of peer review based evaluation and foresight exercises

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A tale of a pediatric urology Sleeping Beauty

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Estudio de las “bellas durmientes” desde la perspectiva del solucionismo

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Citation Functions for Knowledge Export - A Question of Relevance, or, Can CiTO Do the Trick?

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Variants of compound models and their application to citation analysis

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SLEEPING BEAUTIES AND THE GRIND OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION

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A New Perspective to Measure Delayed Recognition in A Simple Way

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Time-varying networks based on activation and deactivation mechanisms

Wang, X., Luo, Y., Zhang, L., & Xu, X. (2017) · Chinese Physics B · doi:10.1088/1674-1056/26/10/108902

How Innovations Enter and Move Within Groups

Newman, M. C. (2018) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-809642-0.00007-8

Classifying Patents by Tracing the Chronology of Patent Citation Increments

Lin, M., Huang, M., & Chen, D. (2018) · IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC) · doi:10.1109/ice.2018.8436385

Visualizing Zika Virus Research Literature Through Bibliometric Mapping

Munuswamy, U., & Jeyasekar, J. J. (2018) · Advances in standardization research · doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-3457-0.ch007

I3: A Non-Parametric Alternative to the Journal Impact Factor.Preprint

Loet Leydesdorff, A., Bornmann, L., & Adams, J. R. (2018) · arXiv (Cornell University)

Group-Based Trajectory Modeling of Citations in Scholarly Literature: Dynamic Qualities of "Transient" and "Sticky Knowledge Claims"Preprint

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The Integrated Impact Indicator (I3) Revisited: A Non-Parametric Alternative to the Journal Impact FactorPreprint

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Comparing selection strategies for engineering research hotspots

Cai, F., Zheng, W., Zhang, X., Ji, J.-M., & Zhou, W. (2019) · Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications · doi:10.1016/j.physa.2019.122287

Prediction of Citation Dynamics of Individual Papers

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Great scientists from a small country in war and peace

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The Past

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Засоби підвищення цитованості наукових публікацій

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Does Impact Factor of a Journal Reflect anything Concerning Its Scientific Significance?Preprint

Klebanov, L. B., Kuvaeva, Y., & Volkovich, Z. (2020) · Preprints.org · doi:10.20944/preprints202011.0164.v1

Adding software to package management systems can increase their citation by 280%Preprint

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О факторах, влияющих на цитируемость научной статьи

Beskaravainaya, E. V., Beskaravainaja, E. V., & Kharybina, T. N. (2020) · Научно- техническая информация Серия 1 Организация и методика информационной работы · doi:10.36535/0548-0019-2020-05-4

Comparative Analysis of Scientific Research between China and the United States Based on Academic Big Data

Hou, S., Jin, Q., Li, J., & Jiang, J. (2020) · International Conference on Big Data and Information Analytics (BigDIA) · doi:10.1109/bigdia51454.2020.00075

A quantitative study on the effectiveness of peer review for academic journals

Yu, Z., WangJia, J., & Wu, J. (2013)

Sleeping beauties and temporal evolution of the coronavirus literaturePreprint

Haghani, M., & Varamini, P. (2021) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2106.04810

A new index to evaluate the academic impact of journals: RAQ index

Zang, Z., Li, X., & Xie, R. (2021) · Performance Measurement and Metrics · doi:10.1108/pmm-09-2021-0048

Analysis of Progress in Research on Community Mining Based on Bibliometrics

Hou, S., Li, J., Jiang, J., Li, M., & Xu, X. (2021) · Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC) · doi:10.1109/ccdc52312.2021.9601943

Knowledge Diffusion and the Dynamics of Citation Accrual

Higham, K. (2019) · Open Access Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka (Figshare) · doi:10.26686/wgtn.17142287.v1

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Bằng chứng cuộc sống: suy ngẫm về phát triển bền vững Việt NamPreprint

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A bibliometric study of the work of Rosalind E. Franklin (1920-1958)

Li, L., Shu, Z., & Rousseau, R. (2022) · Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science · doi:10.5206/cjilsrcsib.v45i1.13745

Do Not Use I.F. for Scientific Value EstimationPreprint

Klebanov, L. B., Kuvaeva, Y., & Volkovich, Z. (2022) · Preprints.org · doi:10.20944/preprints202204.0200.v1

Innovationen in der Wissenschaft

Gläser, J., & Laudel, G. (2019) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-658-17671-6_40-1

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Sleeping beauties in pediatrics

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Research on the Identification and Awakening of the Phenomenon of “Sleeping Beauty” in Educational Technology

Lu, Y., & Wang, J. (2022) · International Conference on Information and Education Technology (ICIET) · doi:10.1109/iciet55102.2022.9779023

Microwave effect: analyzing citations from classic theories and their reinventions—a case study from a classic paper in aquatic ecology—Brooks & Dodson, 1965

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Wissenschaft

Dimbath, O. (2022) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-658-26593-9_65-1

SA-index, a new machine-learning approach to scholar indexingPreprint

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SA-index, a new machine-learning approach to scholar indexingPreprint

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The Influence of Prince on Sleeping Time: An Empirical Study Based on Propensity Score Matching

Zheng, X., & Ma, Y. (2023) · Advances in Engineering Technology Research · doi:10.56028/aetr.4.1.148.2023

Usando redes complexas e processamento de línguas naturais para caracterizar e classificar itens científicos

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Bibliometric analysis of publications on osteoarticular brucellosis

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Wissenschaft

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Sleeping Beauty 2000: an evaluation index of leading and original literature based on the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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AltaVista, el ‘Citation Index’ de la Red, y la edad de la inocencia

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Patent HuntersPreprint

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Verschlafene Verweise auf Etablierte und Außenseiter

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Identificação das características das descobertas científicas em artigos biomédicos

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Structure and Dynamics of Analytic Philosophy

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Sleeping beauties in finance

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Firms’ patenting and collective cumulative knowledge: evidence from the largest R&D investors in the world

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Global Trends in Waste Management Research Within the Tourism and Hospitality Sector

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Bibliometric Mapping of Documents on SPA Tourism in the Scopus Database

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Scientific contributions making a difference

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Scientific Novelty Indicators: What They Mean and Why They Matter?Preprint

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Citation Functions and Their Role in Scientific Organization

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Fostering Innovation Through Sociological Overhaul: A Proposal for a Community-driven Open Research Ecosystem (CORE)Preprint

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Model uncertainty in the evaluation of the impact of interdisciplinary research in Business Studies: A Multiverse Analysis

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Awakening Sleeping Beauties from articles on mRNA vaccines against COVID-19

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Nonlinear effects of spatial determinants on the popularity of scientific fields: Evidence from 40 years of computer science

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Science and technology in Africa : a bibliometric and patent analysis

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The Many Faces of Awakening: A Structural Typology of Sleeping Beauty–Prince RelationsPreprint

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Unboxing higher education institutions’ marketing: A bibliometric analysis of effective communication strategies

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Predicting scientific breakthroughs through capacity-based dynamics in citation networks

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Parallelism between citations and altmetrics: evidence and insights from collaborative boost indicators for science policy/governance

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Redefining Academic Performance: The Development of the NK Composite Scholarly Performance Index

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Sociogenèse d’une spécialité médicale : le cas de radiologie interventionnelle

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Indicateurs SIGAPS : quels sont les profils des publications des établissements de santé français ?

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Confiance et pratiques informationnelles d’accès à la science ouverte en SHS

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“What cannot be said cannot be measured”: On the philosophical foundations and limits of bibliometrics

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Dormancy as a Contact Process: Field-Structured Pre-Awakening Citation Dynamics in Sleeping Beauty PapersPreprint

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Decoding the Novelty Paradox: Predicting Breakthrough Innovations via AI-Driven Patent Network AnalysisPreprint

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Sleeping beauty papers in open science: identification, characteristics, and impact

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Negotiating knowledge: The role of network hedging in the production of high-impact science

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Complexity and the uncertain impact of novel science

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Turning a blind eye to the reality of academic publishing

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Innovations in the Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities

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Scientific Publications and the Embedding Space of Knowledge

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Influence of various novelty types on delayed scientific recognition: Insights from citation classics essays

Zhao, Y., Zhang, H., Wang, Y., Xie, Z., & Zhu, Y. (2026) · Journal of Informetrics · doi:10.1016/j.joi.2026.101867

Sleeping beauties in economics: Allais, Arrow, and the 75th anniversary of the 1952 Paris conference on risk

Boldyrev, I. A., Moscati, I., & Sugden, R. (2026) · Journal of Risk and Uncertainty · doi:10.1007/s11166-026-09504-x · Cited by 1

Not on Average, but at the Extreme: Differences in Disruptive Output under Block-Grant and Competitive Project FundingPreprint

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Source of novelty and invention impact: Evidence from biotechnology patents

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The First Organic Catalytic Reaction: Constantin Kirchhoff’s Experiments and Their Place in the History of Catalysis

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Dataset for "Fractional stochastic model of citation dynamics with memory and volatility"

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Citation data of arXiv eprints and the associated quantitatively-and-temporally normalised impact metrics

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Short communication Sleeping Beauties in science

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Defining and identifying Sleeping Beauties in science

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Sleeping Beauties and their princes in innovation studies

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Dormitory of Physical and Engineering Sciences: Sleeping Beauties May Be Sleeping Innovations Part 1: Basic Properties, Cognitive Environment, Characteristics of the PrincesPreprint

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Dormitory of Physical and Engineering Sciences: Sleeping Beauties May Be Sleeping Innovations

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