Paper with delayed recognition
Paper with delayed recognition (or sleeping beauty) is a publication that received very little attention (and got few citations) shortly after publication, but later got much attention and many citations.
Example:
Van Calster (2012[1]) reports the extreme example of the article by Charles Sanders Peirce (1884[2]) that received few citations until about 2000. Since then the citations have been growing in number
The phenomenon is studied in bibliometrics and scientometrics. Among the studies are [3], [4], [5] and [6].
- ^ Van Calster, Ben (2012). It takes time: A remarkable example of delayed recognition. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. First published online: 28 SEP 2012. DOI: 10.1002/asi.22732
- ^ Peirce, C.S. (1884). The numerical measure of the success of predictions. Science, 4(93), 453-454.
- ^ Costas, R., van Leeuwen, T.N., & van Raan, A.F.J. (2010). Is scientific literature subject to a "sell-by-date"? A general methodology to analyze the "durability" of scientific documents. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(2), 329-339.
- ^ Garfield, E. (1980). Premature discovery or delayed recognition-Why? Essays of an Information Scientist. 4, 488-493.
- ^ Glänzel, W., Schlemmer, B., & Thijs, B. (2003). Better late than never? On the chance to become highly cited only beyond the standard time horizon. Scientometrics. 58(3), 571-586.
- ^ van Raan, A.F.J. (2004). Sleeping beauties in science. Scientometrics. 59(3), 467-472.