Delayed recognition

In Science and other areas, some publications don’t get recognized for a long time. This is often called “Sleeping beauty” (Sleeping beauties in science)

Stent1972prematurity and Robert K mentioned this. Harriet Zuckerman also discussed them (e.g., Zuckerman1980indicators, “sleepers”).

vanRaan2004sleeping studied sleeping beauties.

Ke2015defining proposed ‘sleeping beauty coefficient’ to quantify the intensity of the delayed recognition and showed that there is a heavy-tailed distribution of sleeping beauties.

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