Sleeping beauties in genius work: When were they awakened?

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 432-440

  Li, Jiang ^a   Shi, Dongbo ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS; SLEEP RESEARCH;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES; SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES; SLEEPING BEAUTY; WEB OF SCIENCE;

BIOGRAPHIES;

AROUSAL; AWARDS AND PRIZES; ESTHETICS; WEB OF SCIENCE;

EID: 84956996648     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23380     Document Type: Article

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