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Waking up science’s sleeping beauties - Works in Progress

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Many scientific papers receive little attention initially but become highly cited years later. What groundbreaking discoveries might have already been made, and how can we uncover them faster?

The scientific literature is vast. No individual human can fully know all the published research findings, even within a single field of science. Regardless of how much time a scientist spends reading the literature, there’ll always be what the information scientist Don Swanson called ‘undiscovered public knowledge’: knowledge that exists and is published somewhere, but still remains largely unknown. Some scientific papers receive very little attention after their publication – some, indeed, receive no attention whatsoever . Others, though, can languish with few citations for years or decades,

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