A parameter-free index for identifying under-cited sleeping beauties in science
Abstract
We developed a systematic methodology for identifying the under-cited (or not-so-highly cited) Sleeping Beauty (SB) publications and tried to figure out their key characteristics. Based on the identification framework of “beauty coefficient” (B) introduced by Ke et al. (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 112:7426–7431, 2015), taking into account the whole citation history of the publications concerned, we substituted yearly citations in “beauty coefficient”...
Paper Details
Title
A parameter-free index for identifying under-cited sleeping beauties in science
Published Date
May 28, 2018
Journal
Volume
116
Issue
2
Pages
959 - 971
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