Sleeping Beauty

Detect long-dormant papers that suddenly awaken to heavy citation.

Overview

Finds sleeping beauties — papers that go largely uncited for years and then experience a sharp surge — using the Beauty coefficient and related measures from each paper’s yearly citation history (OpenAlex). Returns the detected beauties with their sleep duration and awakening intensity.

Inputs

Data (Table) — OpenAlex data with yearly citations.

Outputs

Sleeping Beauties (Table) — detected papers with their coefficients.
Selected (Table) — the rows you select.

Controls

Min Beauty Coefficient — minimum “beauty” score to qualify.
Min Sleep Duration (yrs) — minimum dormant period.
Min Total Citations — exclude low-citation noise.
Min Awakening Intensity — strength of the post-sleep surge.
Current Year — reference year for the histories.
Auto apply — recompute on change.

Actions: Run Analysis, Export to Excel. Feed the output to Sleeping Beauty Plot to see the trajectories.