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Referenced Publication Years Spectroscopy applied to iMetrics: Scientometrics, Journal of Informetrics, and a relevant subset of JASIST
Loet Leydesdorff, Lutz Bornmann, Werner Marx +1
We have developed a (freeware) routine for "referenced publication years spectroscopy" (RPYS) and apply this method to the historiography of "iMetrics," that is, the junction of th…
The Wisdom of Citing Scientists
Lutz Bornmann, Werner Marx
This Brief Communication discusses the benefits of citation analysis in research evaluation based on Galton's "Wisdom of Crowds" (1907). Citations are based on the assessment of ma…
Detecting the historical roots of research fields by reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS)
Werner Marx, Lutz Bornmann, Andreas Barth +1
We introduce the quantitative method named "reference publication year spectroscopy" (RPYS). With this method one can determine the historical roots of research fields and quantify…
The normalization of citation counts based on classification systems
Lutz Bornmann, Werner Marx, Andreas Barth
If we want to assess whether the paper in question has had a particularly high or low citation impact compared to other papers, the standard practice in bibliometrics is to normali…
How to evaluate individual researchers working in the natural and life sciences meaningfully? A proposal of methods based on percentiles of citations
Lutz Bornmann, Werner Marx
Although bibliometrics has been a separate research field for many years, there is still no uniformity in the way bibliometric analyses are applied to individual researchers. There…