Defining and identifying Sleeping Beauties in science

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 7426-7431

  Ke, Qing ^a   Ferrara, Emilio ^a   Radicchi, Filippo ^a   Flammini, Alessandro ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Delayed recognition; Sleeping Beauty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BIBLIOMETRICS; CITATION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 84935831984     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1424329112     Document Type: Article

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