A vector for measuring obsolescence of scientific articles

Defining and identifying Sleeping Beauties in science

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A study of the “heartbeat spectra” for “sleeping beauties”

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Quantifying Long-Term Scientific Impact

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Citation curves of “all-elements-sleeping-beauties”: “flash in the pan” first and then “delayed recognition”

(2013) Jiang Li   SCIENTOMETRICS

The phenomenon of all-elements-sleeping-beauties in scientific literature

(2012) Jiang Li et al.   SCIENTOMETRICS

How Citation Boosts Promote Scientific Paradigm Shifts and Nobel Prizes

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Is scientific literature subject to a ‘Sell-By-Date’? A general methodology to analyze the ‘durability’ of scientific documents

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