Introducing CitedReferencesExplorer (CRExplorer): A program for\n Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy with Cited References Standardization

2016/01/06 by Andreas Thor, Thor, Andreas, Werner Marx +5 · 2 citations
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1601.01199

published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University) · Accepted for publication in the Journal of Informetrics

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Abstract

We introduce a new tool - the CitedReferencesExplorer (CRExplorer,\nwww.crexplorer.net) - which can be used to disambiguate and analyze the cited\nreferences (CRs) of a publication set downloaded from the Web of Science (WoS).\nThe tool is especially suitable to identify those publications which have been\nfrequently cited by the researchers in a field and thereby to study for example\nthe historical roots of a research field or topic. CRExplorer simplifies the\nidentification of key publications by enabling the user to work with both a\ngraph for identifying most frequently cited reference publication years (RPYs)\nand the list of references for the RPYs which have been most frequently cited.\nA further focus of the program is on the standardization of CRs. It is a\nserious problem in bibliometrics that there are several variants of the same CR\nin the WoS. In this study, CRExplorer is used to study the CRs of all papers\npublished in the Journal of Informetrics. The analyses focus on the most\nimportant papers published between 1980 and 1990.\n

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