CANADA: Sleeping beauty research papers can lie dormant for years, according to a new study from Indiana University. Some scientific papers have an immediate impact, while others languish in obscurity forever. Still other papers do not become popular among the scientific community for a long time, but are later widely accepted among researchers, investigators concluded.
Albert Einstein, perhaps the most famous physicist of all time, was a co-author of one of these sleeping beauty papers. In 1935, he published a paper, along with fellow physicists Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen, detailing the entanglement of particles. However, the EPR pardox (named after the three authors) was not widely cited in scientific papers until 1994.
“This study provides empirical evidence that a paper can truly be ‘ahead of its time.’ A ‘premature’ topic may fail to attract attention even when it is introduced by authors who have already established a strong scientific reputation,” Alessandro Flammini of Indiana University said.
Researchers examined a massive database of tens of millions of articles published over more than 100 years. They compared the publication date of papers with citations of the articles to determine how long it took for each article to become popular among researchers. They also looked for an “awakening time,” when an article might receive a burst of citations, denoting a period of interest in the paper.
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