Citation analyses normally investigate the number of citations of publications (eg by people,
institutions or journals) where the information on times cited from the bibliographic …

We begin with a short history of measuring science and discuss how the Science Citation
Index has revolutionized the quantitative study of science and created a strong application …

Abstract Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS) has been developed for
identifying the cited references (CRs) with the greatest influence in a given paper set (mostly …

In science-technology research, papers and patents are used to represent science and
technology, respectively. Detecting sleeping beauty papers and their princes in technology …

In recent years, a number of studies have introduced methods for identifying papers with
delayed recognition (so called “sleeping beauties,” SBs) or have presented single …

Bibliographic methods offer an advanced microscope-like tool to probe specific fields of
inquiry. In this article, we use these methodological tools to demonstrate how a seminal …

Main path analysis is a popular method for extracting the backbone of scientific evolution
from a (paper) citation network. The first and core step of main path analysis, called search …

Abstract Sleeping Beauties in Science have attracted a lot of attention in scientometrics and
beyond. However, sleeping beauties also appear in patent. In this paper, we put forward the …

Abstract “Hot papers”(HPs) are papers which received a boost of citations shortly after
publication. Papers with “delayed recognition”(DRs) received scarcely impact over a long …

Modeling and predicting citation dynamics of individual articles is important due to its critical
role in a wide range of decisions in science. While the current modeling framework …