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most citedIdentification of long-term concept-symbols among citations: Can documents be clustered in terms of common intellectual histories?

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cs.DL2016★ 2 cited

Citation algorithms for identifying research milestones driving biomedical innovation

Jordan A. Comins, Loet Leydesdorff

Scientific activity plays a major role in innovation for biomedicine and healthcare. For instance, fundamental research on disease pathologies and mechanisms can generate potential…

cs.DL2016★ 2 cited

Cited References and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) as Two Different Knowledge Representations: Clustering and Mappings at the Paper Level

Loet Leydesdorff, Jordan A. Comins, Aaron A. Sorensen +2

For the biomedical sciences, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) make available a rich feature which cannot currently be merged properly with widely used citing/cited data. Here, w…

cs.DL2016★ 3 cited

Referenced Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS) and Algorithmic Historiography: The Bibliometric Reconstruction of András Schubert's Œuvre

Loet Leydesdorff, Lutz Bornmann, Jordan Comins +2

Referenced Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS) was recently introduced as a method to analyze the historical roots of research fields and groups or institutions. RPYS maps the dis…

cs.DL2016

Citations: Indicators of Quality? The Impact Fallacy

Loet Leydesdorff, Lutz Bornmann, Jordan Comins +1

We argue that citation is a composed indicator: short-term citations can be considered as currency at the research front, whereas long-term citations can contribute to the codifica…

cs.DL2016

RPYS i/o: A web-based tool for the historiography and visualization of citation classics, sleeping beauties, and research fronts

Jordan A. Comins, Loet Leydesdorff

Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS) and Multi-RPYS provide algorithmic approaches to reconstructing the intellectual histories of scientific fields. With this brief comm…

cs.DL2016★ 10 cited

Identification of long-term concept-symbols among citations: Can documents be clustered in terms of common intellectual histories?

Jordan A. Comins, Loet Leydesdorff

"Citation classics" are not only highly cited, but also cited during several decades. We test whether the peaks in the spectrograms generated by Reference Publication Years Spectro…