[3][4][5][6] A 2015 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concluded, after looking at over 22 million scientific papers of the prior 100 years, that "sleeping beauties are common", and seen even in the works of the most famous scientists.
In particular, that a paper on an aspect of quantum mechanics that was published in 1935 by Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen, did not receive widespread attention until 1994.
In 2020, Moodley, Hernández Serrano, Dijck and Dumontier[10] investigated the presence and features of sleeping beauties in case law from the Court of Justice of the European Union.
This study found that "highly influential authors and self-awakening mechanisms were critical triggers for bringing SBs into scientific notoriety".
A recent study by Yuh-Shan Ho and James Hartley found only three sleeping beauties in 303,255 relevant psychology papers.