Distinguishing sleeping beauties in science

Scientometrics

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 821-828

  Li, Jiang ^a   Ye, Fred Y ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Beauty coefficient; Delayed recognition; Sleeping beauty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983087724     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-1977-3     Document Type: Article

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