sleeping-beauties

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Ke et al. (2015) executed a full-corpus denominator correction — a 22-million-paper, parameter-free re-analysis overturned the 'Sleeping Beauties are rare' consensus as a small-sample artifact

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-31 · bibliometrics, scientometrics, survivorship-bias, selection-effects, delayed-vindication
Simkin and Roychowdhury's (2005) random-citation-copying model reproduces preferential attachment and sleeping beauties from the single assumption that most citations are copied

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-26 · citation-copying, bibliometrics, preferential-attachment, sleeping-beauties, citation-genealogy
Ke et al. (PNAS 2015) found delayed scientific recognition is a continuum with no natural cutoff — 'Sleeping Beauties' are a tail, not a distinct class

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · bibliometrics, delayed-vindication, history-of-science, sleeping-beauties, sociology-of-science