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SLEEPING BEAUTIES AND THE GRIND OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION

Author(s) -

Friedhelm von Blanckenburg

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

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Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.345

H-Index - 85

eISSN - 1811-5217

pISSN - 1811-5209

DOI - 10.2113/gselements.13.3.147

Subject(s) - grind , scientific communication , engineering , computer science , library science , mechanical engineering , grinding

An article on the “sleeping beauties” in science (Ke et al. 2015) recently appeared on my desk (or more accurately, on my desktop). “Sleeping beauties” in science have been defined by van Raan (2004) to be publications that go unnoticed for a long time and then suddenly attract a great deal of attention. The “sleeping beauty” concept prompted me to review whether their existence is a component of our current publication practices. Do we have the incentive to develop risky ideas or the time to put together significant, paradigm shifting papers?

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