Dormitory of Physical and Engineering Sciences: Sleeping Beauties May Be Sleeping Innovations

Raan, Anthony F. J. van

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0139786

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“…SBs in pediatrics are rare. Their prevalence is approximately 0.011%, which is comparable to the prevalence of SBs in physics [4]. It seems that some environments or periods are more ''SB fertile'' than others: 3 of 5 SBs were published in the journal Pediatrics, 4 originated from the United States, and 4 were published in the period from 1992 to 1993.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 82%

Sleeping beauties in pediatrics

Završnik¹,

Kokol

2016

J Med Libr Assoc

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Sleeping beauties (SBs) in science have been known for few decadeshowever, it seems that only recently have they become popular. An SB is a publication that ‘‘sleeps’’ for a long time and then almost suddenly awakes and becomes highly cited. SBs present interesting findings in science. Pediatrics research literature has not yet been analyzed for their presence, and 5 pediatrics SBs were discovered in this research. Their prevalence was approximately 0.011%. Some environments or periods are more ‘‘SB fertile’’ than others: 3 of 5 SBs were published in the journal Pediatrics, 4 originated from the United States, and 4 were published in the period from 1992 to 1993. No institutions or authors published more than 1 SB

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 82%

Sleeping beauties in pediatrics

Završnik¹,

Kokol

2016

J Med Libr Assoc

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“…However, other dynamics are also possible: a more or less long period of non-recognition with low citations is followed by a period with high citations after a sudden peak. Such a dynamic is typical for the phenomenon named "sleeping beauty" (van Raan, 2004), "for publications whose importance is not recognized for several years after publication" (Ke, Ferrara, Radicchi, & Flammini, 2015b, p. 7426).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The first years are characterized by below average citations. This type of citation distribution is called "sleeping beauty" in scientometrics (van Raan, 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Ke, Ferrara, Radicchi, and Flammini (2015a) and Ye and Bornmann (2018) have published variants of definitions of how sleeping beauties can be identified in publication sets (see also Goldstein, 2017). In a recent study, van Raan (2015) found that many sleeping beauties are application-oriented, which means that they are potential sleeping innovations. In a follow-up study, van Raan (2016) analyzed characteristics of sleeping beauties which have been cited in patents.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Identifying single influential publications in a research field: new analysis opportunities of the CRExplorer

Thor¹,

Bornmann

Marx

et al. 2018

Scientometrics

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Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS) has been developed for identifying the cited references (CRs) with the greatest influence in a given paper set (mostly sets of papers on certain topics or fields). The program CRExplorer (see www.crexplorer.net) was specifically developed by Bornmann (2016a, 2016b) for applying RPYS to publication sets downloaded from Scopus or Web of Science. In this study, we present some advanced methods which have been newly developed for CRExplorer. These methods are able to identify and characterize the CRs which have been influential across a longer period (many citing years). The new methods are demonstrated in this study using all the papers published in Scientometrics between 1978 and 2016. The indicators N_TOP50, N_TOP25, and N_TOP10 can be used to identify those CRs which belong to the 50%, 25%, or 10% most frequently cited publications (CRs) over many citing publication years. In the Scientometrics dataset, for example, Lotka's (1926) paper on the distribution of scientific productivity belongs to the top 10% publications (CRs) in 36 citing years. Furthermore, the new version of CRExplorer analyzes the impact sequence of CRs across citing years. CRs can have below average (-), average (0), or above average (+) impact in citing years (whereby average is meant in the sense of expected values). The sequence (e.g. 00++---0--00) is used by the program to identify papers with typical impact distributions. For example, CRs can have early, but not late impact ("hot papers", e.g. +++---) or vice versa ("sleeping beauties", e.g. ---0000---++).

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“…A discussion of these bibliometric mapping methods can be found in van Raan (2015) and also in the next section. CWTS played a pioneering role in this mapping methodology by creating a time-series of co-word and co-classification based maps for the entire technological domain Noyons et al, 1991).…”

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Patent Citations Analysis and Its Value in Research Evaluation: A Review and a New Approach to Map Technology-relevant Research

Raan

2017

Journal of Data and Information Science

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Purpose First, to review the state-of-the-art in patent citation analysis, particularly characteristics of patent citations to scientific literature (scientific non-patent references, SNPRs). Second, to present a novel mapping approach to identify technology-relevant research based on the papers cited by and referring to the SNPRs. Design/methodology/approach In the review part we discuss the context of SNPRs such as the time lags between scientific achievements and inventions. Also patent-to-patent citation is addressed particularly because this type of patent citation analysis is a major element in the assessment of the economic value of patents. We also review the research on the role of universities and researchers in technological development, with important issues such as universities as sources of technological knowledge and inventor-author relations. We conclude the review part of this paper with an overview of recent research on mapping and network analysis of the science and technology interface and of technological progress in interaction with science. In the second part we apply new techniques for the direct visualization of the cited and citing relations of SNPRs, the mapping of the landscape around SNPRs by bibliographic coupling and co-citation analysis, and the mapping of the conceptual environment of SNPRs by keyword co-occurrence analysis. Findings We discuss several properties of SNPRs. Only a small minority of publications covered by the Web of Science or Scopus are cited by patents, about 3%–4%. However, for publications based on university-industry collaboration the number of SNPRs is considerably higher, around 15%. The proposed mapping methodology based on a “second order SNPR approach” enables a better assessment of the technological relevance of research. Research limitations The main limitation is that a more advanced merging of patent and publication data, in particular unification of author and inventor names, in still a necessity. Practical implications The proposed mapping methodology enables the creation of a database of technology-relevant papers (TRPs). In a bibliometric assessment the publications of research groups, research programs or institutes can be matched with the TRPs and thus the extent to which the work of groups, programs or institutes are relevant for technological development can be measured. Originality/value The review part examines a wide range of findings in the research of patent citation analysis. The mapping approach to identify a broad range of technology-relevant papers is novel and offers new opportunities in research evaluation practices.

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Dormitory of Physical and Engineering Sciences: Sleeping Beauties May Be Sleeping Innovations

Cited by 67 publications

References 60 publications

Sleeping beauties in pediatrics

Sleeping beauties in pediatrics

Identifying single influential publications in a research field: new analysis opportunities of the CRExplorer

Patent Citations Analysis and Its Value in Research Evaluation: A Review and a New Approach to Map Technology-relevant Research

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