Compressing multiple scales of impact detection by Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy

Comins, Jordan A.; Hussey, T. W.

doi:10.1016/j.joi.2015.03.003

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“…Viewing the line, analysts then search for maxima, or peaks, as indicators of seminal works being published in a given year. Thus far, RPYS has successfully been used to identify seminal research publications across a multitude of scientific domains (Comins and Hussey 2015a;Elango et al 2016;Leydesdorff et al 2016;Leydesdorff et al 2014;Marx and Bornmann 2013;Thor et al 2016;Wray and Bornmann 2014;Comins and Hussey 2015b;Comins and Leydesdorff 2016). In addition, recent work shows the convergence between RPYS and subject matter expert's identification of seminal scientific papers within given areas of basic biomedical research (Comins & Leydesdorff, 2017).…”

Section: Pcs Algorithmmentioning

confidence: 99%

Patent citation spectroscopy (PCS): Online retrieval of landmark patents based on an algorithmic approach

Comins

Carmack

Leydesdorff

2018

Journal of Informetrics

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Patent citation spectroscopy (PCS): Online retrieval of landmark patents based on an algorithmic approach

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Carmack

Leydesdorff

2018

Journal of Informetrics

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“…The highly cited papers are-as a rule-of specific significance to the research field in question (here: climate change research and tea) and in the case of earlier publications often represent its origins and intellectual roots [21]. In recent years, several papers have been published, in which RPYS is basically described and applied to examine the historical roots of various research fields [4,16,24,25].…”

Section: Cited References Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Warming and Tea Production—The Bibliometric View on a Newly Emerging Research Topic

Marx

Haunschild

Bornmann

2017

Climate

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Abstract:In this study, we analyzed the newly emerging research field of climate change in combination with tea production. We adapted a valid search query to cover the relevant literature as completely as possible and to exclude irrelevant literature. The search resulted in a publication set of 14 key papers dealing with the implications of climate change for tea production as well as 71 papers citing at least one of the 14 key papers. The VOSviewer software was used for revealing the thematic content of the publication set based on the analysis of the keywords. The analysis illustrates the importance of climate change for tea production and mirrors the emerging discussion on climate change impacts and adaptation strategies. Questions regarding the historical context of research fields or specific research topics can be answered by using a bibliometric method called "Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy" (RPYS). The standard RPYS, as well as RPYS-CO, which is based on co-citations of a marker paper, were applied and the most important publication in the historical context of climate change in combination with tea production was identified: both RPYS analyses revealed a paper by M.A. Wijeratne working at the Tea Research Institute (TRI) in Sri Lanka as the starting point of the newly emerging research topic. Currently, the research topic is stimulated by research projects and publications of Selena Ahmed at the Montana State University (USA).

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“…RPYS has the advantage that it is based on cited references; it is thus less dependent on restrictions of literature coverages by databases. In recent years, several papers have been published, in which RPYS is basically described and applied to examine the historical roots of various research fields [30][31][32][33][34].…”

Section: Cited References Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Climate in the Collapse of the Maya Civilization: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Scientific Discourse

Marx

Haunschild

Bornmann

2017

Climate

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This bibliometric analysis deals with research on the collapse of the Maya civilization-a research topic with a long-lasting history, which has been boosted significantly by recent paleoclimatic research. The study is based on a publication set of 433 papers published between 1923 and 2016. The publications covered by the Web of Science (WoS) show a significant increase since 1990, reaching about 30 papers per year at present. The results show that the current discourse on the collapse of the Maya civilization is focused on the role of climate as a major factor for the demise of this ancient civilization. The bibliometric analyses also reveal that (1) paleoclimatic records become numerous and are increasingly better dated; (2) the explanatory power of the records has been significantly increased by analyzing samples from regions closer to the relevant Maya sites; and (3) interdisciplinary cooperation of the humanities (archeology, anthropology, history) with natural sciences disciplines (geoscience, ecology, paleoclimatology, meteorology) seems to be highly promising. The collapse of the Maya civilization is a good example of how natural sciences entered research in the humanities and social sciences (anthropology, archeology, history) and boosted research (and solutions) around long-discussed, but unsolved questions.

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Compressing multiple scales of impact detection by Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy

Cited by 29 publications

References 10 publications

Patent citation spectroscopy (PCS): Online retrieval of landmark patents based on an algorithmic approach

Patent citation spectroscopy (PCS): Online retrieval of landmark patents based on an algorithmic approach

Global Warming and Tea Production—The Bibliometric View on a Newly Emerging Research Topic

The Role of Climate in the Collapse of the Maya Civilization: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Scientific Discourse

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