Mutli-RPYS References
- Comins & Leydesdorff. (Submitted). Identification of long-term concept-symbols among citations: Can documents be clustered in terms of common intellectual histories?
- Comins & Hussey. (2015). Compressing multiple scales of impact detection by reference publication year spectroscopy Journal of Informetrics, 9, 449-454.
Standard RPYS References
- Comins & Hussey. (2015). Detecting seminal research contributions to the development and use of the global positioning system by reference publication year spectroscopy Scientometrics, 104, 575-580.
- Leydesdorff et al. (2014). Referenced Publication Years Spectroscopy applied to iMetrics: Scientometrics, Journal of Informetrics, and a relevant subset of JASIST Journal of Informetrics, 8, 162-174.
- Marx et al. (2014). Detecting the historical roots of research fields by reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS) Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 65, 751-764.
Scientific Team
Jordan Comins
Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation
900 North Glebe Road
Arlington, VA 22203
Email: jordan.comins@vt-arc.org
Loet Leydesdorff
Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR),
University of Amsterdam,
P.O. Box 15793
1001 NG Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Email: loet@leydesdorff.net
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