id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_wpg6uc3xunf77i7xfpttoxpqeq Qing Ke Defining and identifying Sleeping Beauties in science 2015 6 .pdf application/pdf 7020 979 65 A Sleeping Beauty (SB) in science refers to a paper whose importance is not recognized for several years after publication. 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. Several factors can potentially affect the amount of citations accumulated by a paper over time, including its quality, timeliness, been empirically observed that the rate at which a paper accumulates citations decreases after an initial growth period (24– In this work, we focus on the citation history of papers receiving t = T, and that the paper receives its maximum number ctm of yearly citations we show that around the awakening time, the SBs cocitation dynamics exhibit clear topical patterns (SI Appendix, Fig. S11) (37). curves show yearly citations of four papers with different B values in the APS See SI Appendix, Fig. S4 for detailed citation histories of these papers. ./cache/work_wpg6uc3xunf77i7xfpttoxpqeq.pdf ./txt/work_wpg6uc3xunf77i7xfpttoxpqeq.txt