Detecting the historical roots of research fields by reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS)

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 751-764

  Marx, Werner ^a   Bornmann, Lutz ^b   Barth, Andreas ^c   Leydesdorff, Loet ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c FIZ Karlsruhe Leibniz Institut für Informationsinfrastruktur   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ON CURRENTS; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; RESEARCH FIELDS;

PUBLISHING;

EID: 84899650294     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23089     Document Type: Article

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