Paper Info
Title
Referenced Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS) and Algorithmic Historiography: The Bibliometric Reconstruction of András Schubert's Œuvre.
Abstract
Referenced Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS) was recently introduced as a method to analyze the historical roots of research fields and groups or institutions. RPYS maps the distribution of the publication years of the cited references in a document set. In this study, we apply this methodology to the {oe}uvre of an individual researcher on the occasion of a Festschrift for Andru0027as Schubertu0027s 70th birthday. We discuss the different options of RPYS in relation to one another (e.g. Multi-RPYS), and in relation to the longer-term research program of algorithmic historiography (e.g., HistCite) based on Schubertu0027s publications (n=172) and cited references therein as a bibliographic domain in scientometrics. Main path analysis and Multi-RPYS of the citation network are used to show the changes and continuities in Schubertu0027s intellectual career. Diachronic and static decomposition of a document set can lead to different results, while the analytically distinguishable lines of research may overlap and interact over time, and intermittent.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
arXiv: Digital Libraries
Data science,Computer science,Citation network,Scientometrics,Linguistics,Historiography
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1604.04705
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Loet Leydesdorff14987381.86
lutz bornmann23124279.75
Jordan A. Comins3556.51
Werner Marx412110.57
Andreas Thor5725.34