To be the Prince to wake up Sleeping Beauty: the rediscovery of the delayed recognition studies

Scientometrics

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 9-24

  Song, You ^a   Situ, Fangling ^a   Zhu, Hongjun ^a   Lei, Jinzhi ^b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Citation network; Delayed recognition; Rediscovering paper; Sleeping Beauty

Indexed keywords

EID: 85049911188     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-018-2830-7     Document Type: Article

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