Sleeping Beauties and their princes in innovation studies

Scientometrics

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 541-580

  Teixeira, Aurora A C ^a,b,c   Vieira, Pedro Cosme ^a   Abreu, Ana Patrícia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c OBEGEF   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Awakening intermittency; Delayed recognition; Innovation; Prince; Sleeping Beauty

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001086034     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-2186-9     Document Type: Article

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