“Smart girls” versus “sleeping beauties” in the sciences: The identification of instant and delayed recognition by using the citation angle

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 359-367

  Ye, Fred Y ^a   Bornmann, Lutz ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE; NEW TERMS; SLEEPING BEAUTY;

CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; GIRL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NATURAL SCIENCE; SLEEP;

EID: 85022022367     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23846     Document Type: Article

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