Sleeping Beauties and their princes in innovation studies

A Sleeping Beauty (SB) is a publication that goes unnoticed for a long time, and then, almost suddenly, is awakened by a ‘prince’ (PR), attracting from there on a lot of attention in terms of citations. Although there are some studies on the SB and the PR phenomena in the sciences, barely any resear...

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Published in:Scientometrics 2017-02, Vol.110 (2), p.541-580
Main Authors: Teixeira, Aurora A. C., Vieira, Pedro Cosme, Abreu, Ana Patrícia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Citation analysis
Computer Science
Feature extraction
Information Storage and Retrieval
Innovations
Library Science
Sleep
Social sciences
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Summary:A Sleeping Beauty (SB) is a publication that goes unnoticed for a long time, and then, almost suddenly, is awakened by a ‘prince’ (PR), attracting from there on a lot of attention in terms of citations. Although there are some studies on the SB and the PR phenomena in the sciences, barely any research on this topic has been conducted in the social sciences, let alone in innovation studies. Based on 52,373 articles extracted from the Web of Science and using a new method that, comparatively with extant methods, selects SBs with the highest scientific impact, we found that, similarly to the sciences, SBs are rare in the field of innovation (
ISSN:0138-9130
1588-2861
DOI:10.1007/s11192-016-2186-9