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

Scientometrics

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1509-1517

  Comins, Jordan A ^a   Leydesdorff, Loet ^b  

^a Partnership Intermediary for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Algorithmic historiography; Bibliometrics; Citation analysis; Multi RPYS; Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961773572     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-1928-z     Document Type: Article

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