Table 1.
Results of the measuring procedure with 72 observations for physics.
Fig 1.
The citation history of the Takeda & Shiraishi (1994) Sleeping Beauty.
The number of citations (self-citations excluded) is indicated with C.
Table 2.
Definition of the main field physics based on WoS journal categories (codes and name of the field).
Fig 2.
Normalized number of physics SBs by publication year.
Table 3.
Distribution of physics SBs over countries (the first 15 countries of the distribution) and overall distribution.
Table 4.
Institutions with 5 or more physics SBs, their percentage of SBs, and their overall percentage in physics.
Table 5.
Number of SBs in the different physics fields with ten or more SBs, their percentage of SBs, and their overall percentage in physics.
Table 6.
Distribution of the physics SBs over journals with 5 or more SBs, their percentage of SBs, and their overall percentage in physics.
Table 7.
Physics authors with at least three SBs.
Fig 3.
Distribution of the number of authors per Sleeping Beauty (blue diamonds), and the number of authors per physics paper in general (light green triangles) normalized to the top of the distribution for the SBs.
Fig 4.
Number of extreme physics SBs by year of publication.
Fig 5.
Examples of the three main types of SB citation histories.
Upper part: type a; middle part: type b; lower part: type c. The number of citations (self-citations excluded) is indicated with C.
Fig 6.
Upper panel: Physics Sleeping Beauties and their citation links, overall picture.
Second panel from above: Five selected physics Sleeping Beauties clusters and their citation links (minimum number of citation links = 5). Third panel from above: Further selection of physics Sleeping Beauties clusters and their citation links, now with lower threshold (minimum number of citation links = 3) and drill down to the McDonald SB. Lower panel: Application-oriented physics Sleeping Beauties and their citation links (minimum number of citation links = 2).
Fig 7.
Concept map of the 389 Physics SBs.
Upper part: map with co-occurrence links; lower part: same map, representation of publication densities.
Fig 8.
Zoom into the map shown in Fig 7.
Upper part: gravitational radiation cluster; lower part: crystal and thin-layer structure research. Also co-occurrence links are indicated.
Fig 9.
BC-map of the 389 Physics SBs with links indicating the similarity of cited references.
Upper part: overview map; lower part zoom into the main cluster.
Fig 10.
CC-map of the 389 Physics SBs with links indicating co-citation relations.
Fig 11.
Concept map of the 500 top-papers that cite the top-10 SBs.
Upper part: map with clusters and co-occurrence links; lower part: same map, representation of publication densities.
Fig 12.
Cited papers (references) and citing papers of the McDonald Sleeping Beauty.
Upper part: cited papers; lower part: citing papers. The time runs top-down.
Fig 13.
Cited papers (references) and citing papers of the Takeda & Shiraishi Sleeping Beauty.
Upper part: cited papers; lower part: citing papers. The time runs top-down.
Fig 14.
Concept maps of the references of the McDonald SB, upper part; the McDonald SB itself, middle part; and the citing papers of the McDonald SB, lower part.
Fig 15.
Concept map of the citing papers of the McDonald SB with higher local resolution, the sterile neutrino is in the upper left corner.
Fig 16.
Concept map of the citing papers of the Takeda & Shiraishi SB.
Upper part: overview map; lower part: zoom into silicone and graphene nanoribbon.
Fig 17.
Bibliographic coupling map of the of the citing papers of the McDonald SB with links indicating the similarity of cited references.
Fig 18.
Co-citation map of the citing papers of the Mc Donald SB with links indicating co-citation relations.
Fig 19.
Bibliographic coupling map of the of the citing papers of the Takeda & Shiraishi SB with links indicating the similarity of cited references.
Fig 20.
Co-citation map of the citing papers of the Takeda & Shiraishi SB with links indicating co-citation relations.