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Reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS) of Eugene Garfield's publications

Lutz Bornmann et al. Scientometrics. 2018.

Abstract

Which studies, theories, and ideas have influenced Eugene Garfield's scientific work? Recently, the method reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS) has been introduced, which can be used to answer this and related questions. Since then, several studies have been published dealing with the historical roots of research fields and scientists. The program CRExplorer (http://www.crexplorer.net) was specifically developed for RPYS. In this study, we use this program to investigate the historical roots of Eugene Garfield's oeuvre.

Keywords: Bibliometrics; Cited references; Eugene Garfield; Historical roots; Pioneer; RPYS; Reference publication year spectroscopy.

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Number of citations to EG’s full and scientific oeuvre

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Spectrogram of data set 1 (n = 328 CRs). The number of CRs (blue line) and the five-year median deviation (black line) are shown

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Spectrogram of data set 2 (n = 316 CRs). The number of CRs (blue line) and the five-year median deviation (black line) are shown

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