Identifying keyword sleeping beauties: A perspective on the knowledge diffusion process

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Highlights：

• We propose a new idea for investigating sleeping beauties in science and redefine their concepts at the granularity level of keywords.

• Based on the survival analysis method, we compensate the defects of the beauty coefficient criterion by penalizing the early adoptions and propose an improved identification method for distinguishing keyword sleeping beauties.

• We explore the awakening mechanism of the keyword sleeping beauties based on intrinsic and extrinsic factors.

摘要

•We propose a new idea for investigating sleeping beauties in science and redefine their concepts at the granularity level of keywords.•Based on the survival analysis method, we compensate the defects of the beauty coefficient criterion by penalizing the early adoptions and propose an improved identification method for distinguishing keyword sleeping beauties.•We explore the awakening mechanism of the keyword sleeping beauties based on intrinsic and extrinsic factors.

论文关键词：Sleeping beauty,Delayed recognition,Knowledge diffusion trajectory,Survival analysis

论文评审过程：Received 21 April 2021, Revised 28 November 2021, Accepted 1 December 2021, Available online 22 December 2021, Version of Record 22 December 2021.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2021.101239