Distinguishing sleeping beauties in science

Jiang Li，Fred Y. Ye

Abstract Three kinds of criteria have been advanced for distinguishing sleeping beauties in science, i.e., average-based criteria, quartile-based criteria and parameter-free criteria,on which basis four rules are proposed that should be adhered to in distinguishing sleeping beauties: (1) the early citations should be penalized; (2) the whole citation history should be taken into account; (3) the awakening time of a sleeping beauty should not vary overtime; and (4) arbitrary thresholds on sleeping period or awakening intensity should be avoided.

Keywords：Sleeping beauty  Beauty coefficient  Delayed recofgnition

（基于一般的标准，基于分位数标准和无参数的标准；4条规则：早期被引被忽略；考虑整个引用历史；睡美人文献苏醒时间历时太久；避免武断地确定阈值来确定沉睡期或唤醒强度）

Scientometrics (2016) 108:821–828

DOI 10.1007/s11192-016-1977-3