Sleeping Beauties in science

By Anthony F. J. van Raan. Scientometrics, 2004

351 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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Bibliometric visualisation: an application in tourism crisis and disaster management research (2019, neutral): “These papers are sometimes referred to as ‘sleeping beauties’ (van Raan, 2004) or ‘sleepers’ (Benckendorff, 2009b).”
What do we know about the h index? (2007, background): “A scientist’s h index will never decrease (Sidiropoulos, Katsaros, & Manolopoulos, 2006); an increase is to be expected as new (high-impact) papers are published, as “sleeping beauties” ( van Raan, 2004b ) come to life, and as the scientist’s papers attract citations (Cronin & Meho, 2006; Hirsch, 20”
What do citation counts measure? A review of studies on citing behavior (2008, background): “…in a similar vein are reported by Van Raan (2004b) in a paper titled “Sleeping beauties in science”: “A ‘sleeping beauty’ is a publication that goes unnoticed (‘sleeps’) for a long time and then, almost suddenly, attracts a lot of attention (‘is awakened by a prince’)” (Van Raan, 2004b, p. 461).”
A review of theory and practice in scientometrics (2015, background): “There are many variants to this basic pattern, for example “shooting stars” that are highly cited but die quickly, and “sleeping beauties” that are ahead of their time (van Raan, 2004).”