Better late than never? On the chance to become highly cited only beyond the standard bibliometric time horizon

According to GARFIELD (1980), most scientists can name an example of an important discovery that had little initial impact on contemporary research. And he uses by Mendel's work as a classical example. Delayed recognition is sometimes used by scientists as an argument against citation-based indicators based on citation windows defined for a short- or medium-term initial period beginning with the paper's publication year.status: publishe