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A Bibliometric Framework for Identifying “Princes” Who Wake up the “Sleeping Beauty” in Challenge-type Scientific Discoveries Cover

A Bibliometric Framework for Identifying “Princes” Who Wake up the “Sleeping Beauty” in Challenge-type Scientific Discoveries

By: Jian Du and  Yishan Wu  
Open Access
|Sep 2017

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.20309/jdis.201605 | Journal eISSN: 2543-683X | Journal ISSN: 2096-157X
Language: English
Page range: 50 - 68
Submitted on: Nov 30, 2015
Accepted on: Jan 8, 2016
Published on: Sep 1, 2017
Published by: Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Science Library
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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