Hu Zewen, Ren Ping, Shen Jiahui
[Purpose/Significance] The identification of Sleeping Beauties from different disciplines and their wide dissemination and utilization in the scientific community can greatly come true the scientific value of such scientific achievements and promote the development and progress of scientific fields.[Methodology/process] By using k-value algorithm, three-indicator recognition method and citation delay index, the Sleeping Beauties were identified from 905418 articles published in Neuroscience from 1990 to 2010 were analyzed, as sell as influencing factors of these Sleeping Beauties as journal distribution, paper length, number of authors.[Result/Conclusion] The empirical results showed that:126 Sleeping Beauties were identified via the combination of K-value algorithm and three-index method from more than 900000 articles in the field of Neuroscience, with high recognition accuracy.2A large number of Sleeping Beauties were identified via the citation delay index, up to 65, with slightly lower recognition accuracy, but the method had higher computational efficiency.3The sleeping depth of the 26 same Sleeping Beauties identified by two types of methods from Neuroscience ranged from 0.11 to 1.63 times, and the sleeping duration was relatively short, with an average of 9.88 years.In addition, the influencing factors of the formation of Sleeping Beauties in Neuroscience were not significantly correlated with the impact factor, the number of authors and length of papers, except the total citation frequency.