Example Papers

• Detecting the historical roots of research fields by reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS)
  by Werner Marx, Lutz Bornmann, Andreas Barth, and Loet Leydesdorff (arXiv)

• Philosophy of science viewed through the lense of "Referenced Publication Year Spectrosopy" (RPYS)
  by K. Brad Wray and Lutz Bornmann (arXiv)

• Tracing the origin of a scientific legend by reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS): The legend of the Darwin finches
  by Werner Marx and Lutz Bornmann (arXiv)

• Referenced publication years spectroscopy applied to iMetrics: Scientometrics, Journal of Informetrics, and a relevant subset of JASIST
  by Loet Leydesdorff, Lutz Bornmann, Werner Marx, and Staša Milojevic (arXiv)

• Identifying seminal works most important for research fields: Software for the reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS)
  by Lutz Bornmann, Andreas Thor, Werner Marx, and Loet Leydesdorff (figshare)

• On the origins and the historical roots of the Higgs boson research from a bibliometric perspective
  by Andreas Barth, Werner Marx, Lutz Bornmann, and Rüdiger Mutz (arXiv)

• Identification of long-term concept-symbols among citations: Can documents be clustered in terms of common intellectual histories?
  by Jordan A. Comins and Loet Leydesdorff (arXiv)

• Detecting the historical roots of tribology research: A bibliometric analysis
  by Bakthavachalam Elango, Lutz Bornmann, and Govindaraju Kannan (arXiv)

• Which early works are cited most frequently in climate change research literature? A bibliometric approach based on reference publication year spectroscopy
  by Werner Marx, Robin Haunschild, Andreas Thor, and Lutz Bornmann (arXiv)

• Tracing the historical origins of knowledge management issues through referenced publication years spectroscopy (RPYS).
  by Ali Akbar Khasseh and Reza Mokhtarpour

• Exploration into the evolution and historical roots of citation analysis by referenced publication year spectroscopy
  by Jianhua Hou

• Identification of seminal works that built the foundation for functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of taste and food
  by Andy Wai Kan Yeung

• Reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS) with publications in the area of academic efficiency studies: What are the historical roots of this research topic?
  by Mehdi Rhaiem and Lutz Bornmann

• "Sleeping beauty" and her restless sleep: Charles Dotter and the birth of interventional radiology
  by Philippe Gorry and Pascal Ragouet

• The historical roots of recent contributions to ecological economics: A note using reference publication year spectroscopy
  by Matthieu Ballandonne