Why and how can “sleeping beauties” be awakened?

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Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-18

  Wang, Juncheng ^a   ma, Feicheng ^b   Chen, Minjie ^b   Rao, Yiqing ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION OF CHINA   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Information; Information awakening; Information obsolescence; Information utilization; Obsolescence; Prince; Sleeping beauty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863180939     PISSN: 02640473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02640471211204033     Document Type: Article

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