[Sigsti-l] Fwd: [CHMINF-L] "Sleeping beauties": why some scientific papers only become influential after decades of obscurity

[Moriana Garcia]

FYI. Please, excuse cross-posting

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From: Robert C Michaelson <rmichael at northwestern.edu>
Date: Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:23 AM
Subject: [CHMINF-L] "Sleeping beauties": why some scientific papers only
become influential after decades of obscurity
To: "chminf-l at list.indiana.edu" <chminf-l at list.indiana.edu>, PAMNET <
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http://www.vox.com/2015/5/26/8660943/scientific-research-influence

This study was done on a database of 22 million scientific papers over more
than a century, and introduces a new measure "that captures both the
recognition intensity and the duration of the 'sleeping' period ... ."
The PNAS abstract is here:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/05/20/1424329112.abstract?sid=9124145e-10fb-4282-b18a-cb0058a4ef51
 - full paper is behind a pay-wall.
>From the abstract: "Our analysis emphasizes a complex feature of citation
dynamics that so far has received little attention, and also provides
empirical evidence against the use of short-term citation metrics in the
quantification of scientific impact."

Bob Michaelson
retired librarian



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