Scientometrics
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Volume 59: Issue 3
Sleeping Beauties in science
Author:
Anthony F. J. van Raan Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands

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Pages:
467–472
Online Publication Date:
01 Jan 2004
Publication Date:
01 Jan 2004
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1023/b:scie.0000018543.82441.f1
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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'.

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Scientometrics
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