Do younger Sleeping Beauties prefer a technological prince? | Scholarly Publications Skip to main content Leiden University Scholarly Publications Home Submit About Select Collection All collections This collection Academic speeches Dissertations Faculty of Archaeology Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs Faculty of Humanities Faculty of Science Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences Leiden Journals, Conference Proceedings and Books Leiden Law School Leiden University Press Medicine / Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) Research output UL Search box Persistent URL of this record https://hdl.handle.net/1887/60922 Documents Download AvR-2018-ScientomSBTecPrince Not Applicable (or Unknown) open access Full text at publishers site In Collections This item can be found in the following collections: Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) Raan, A.F.J. van; Winnink, J.J. (2017) Do younger Sleeping Beauties prefer a technological prince? Article / Letter to editor In this paper we investigate recent Sleeping Beauties cited in patents (SB-SNPRs). We find that the increasing trend of the relative number of SBs stopped around 1998. Moreover, we find that the time lag between the publication year of the SB-SNPRs and their first citation in a patent is becoming shorter in recent years. Our observations also suggest that, on average, in the more recent years SBs are awakened increasingly earlier by a ‘technological prince’ rather than by a ‘scientific prince’. These observations suggest that SBs with technological importance are ‘discovered’ earlier in an application-oriented context. Then, because of this earlier recognized technological relevance, papers may be cited also earlier in a scientific context. Thus early recognized technological relevance may ‘prevent’ papers to become an SB. The scientific impact of Sleeping Beauties is generally not necessarily related to the technological importance of the SBs, as far as measured with... Show more In this paper we investigate recent Sleeping Beauties cited in patents (SB-SNPRs). We find that the increasing trend of the relative number of SBs stopped around 1998. Moreover, we find that the time lag between the publication year of the SB-SNPRs and their first citation in a patent is becoming shorter in recent years. Our observations also suggest that, on average, in the more recent years SBs are awakened increasingly earlier by a ‘technological prince’ rather than by a ‘scientific prince’. These observations suggest that SBs with technological importance are ‘discovered’ earlier in an application-oriented context. Then, because of this earlier recognized technological relevance, papers may be cited also earlier in a scientific context. Thus early recognized technological relevance may ‘prevent’ papers to become an SB. The scientific impact of Sleeping Beauties is generally not necessarily related to the technological importance of the SBs, as far as measured with number and impact of the citing patents. The analysis of the occurrence of inventor-author relations as well as the citation years of inventor-author patents suggest that the scientific awakening of Sleeping Beauties only rarely occurs by inventor-author self-citation. Show less Quantitative studies of science All authors Raan, A.F.J. van; Winnink, J.J. Date 2017-12-05 Journal Scientometrics Volume 114 Issue 2 Pages 701 - 717 DOI doi:10.1007/s11192-017-2603-8 Link https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2603-8 ©2020-2021 Leiden University A service provided by Leiden University Libraries Contact About us Recently Added Digital Collections Student Repository