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Download full textOnuigbo, Wilson I. B. – Online Submission, 2009
The concept of premature discovery in science entails the publication of an important idea which remains uncited for a long period. Thereafter, a deluge of citations of its substance would occur. An overlooked example concerns the discovery in 1963 of how lung cancer cells stimulate the formation of new lymph vessels in man. Subsequently called…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Medical Research, Cancer, Discovery Processes
