Paper Info
Title
Discovering seminal works with marker papers
Abstract
Bibliometric information retrieval in databases can employ different strategies. Commonly, queries are performed by searching in title, abstract and/or author keywords (author vocabulary). More advanced queries employ database keywords to search in a controlled vocabulary. Queries based on search terms can be augmented with their citing papers if a research field cannot be curtailed by the search query alone. Here, we present another strategy to discover the most important papers of a research field. A marker paper is used to reveal the most important works for the relevant community. All papers co-cited with the marker paper are analyzed using reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS). For demonstration of the marker paper approach, density functional theory is used as a research field. Comparisons between a prior RPYS on a publication set compiled using a keyword-based search in a controlled vocabulary and three different co-citation RPYS analyses show very similar results. Similarities and differences are discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s11192-020-03358-z
SCIENTOMETRICS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Bibliometrics,RPYS,RPYS-CO,Marker paper,Seminal papers,Historical roots,DFT,Web of Science,Microsoft Academic,CAplus
Journal
125.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3.0
0138-9130
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Robin Haunschild113720.10
Werner Marx212110.57