AUTHOR=Zhao Wenxi , Korobskiy Dmitriy , Chacko George 

TITLE=Delayed Recognition: A Co-Citation Perspective

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics

VOLUME=5

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/research-metrics-and-analytics/articles/10.3389/frma.2020.577131

DOI=10.3389/frma.2020.577131

ISSN=2504-0537

ABSTRACT=<p>A Sleeping Beauty is a publication that is apparently unrecognized by citation for some period of time before experiencing a burst of recognition. Various reasons, including resistance to new ideas, have been attributed to such delayed recognition. We study this phenomenon in the special case of co-citations, which represent new ideas generated through the combination of existing ones. Using relatively stringent selection criteria derived from the work of others, we analyze a very large dataset of over 940 million unique co-cited article pairs, and identify 1,196 cases of delayed co-citations. We further classify these 1,196 cases with respect to amplitude, rate of citation, and disciplinary origin.</p>