 Introducing CitedReferencesExplorer (CRExplorer): A program for reference publication year spectroscopy with cited references standardizationAndreas Thor, Werner Marx, Loet Leydesdorff and Lutz Bornmann () Journal of Informetrics, 2016, vol. 10, issue 2, 503-515 Abstract: We introduce a new tool – the CitedReferencesExplorer (CRExplorer, www.crexplorer.net) – which can be used to disambiguate and analyze the cited references (CRs) of a publication set downloaded from the Web of Science (WoS). The tool is especially suitable to identify those publications which have been frequently cited by the researchers in a field and thereby to study for example the historical roots of a research field or topic. CRExplorer simplifies the identification of key publications by enabling the user to work with both a graph for identifying most frequently cited reference publication years (RPYs) and the list of references for the RPYs which have been most frequently cited. A further focus of the program is on the standardization of CRs. It is a serious problem in bibliometrics that there are several variants of the same CR in the WoS. In this study, CRExplorer is used to study the CRs of all papers published in the Journal of Informetrics. The analyses focus on the most important papers published between 1980 and 1990. Keywords: CitedReferencesExplorer; CRExplorer; Reference publication year spectroscopy; Citation analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:infome:v:10:y:2016:i:2:p:503-515 DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2016.02.005 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Informetrics is currently edited by Leo Egghe More articles in Journal of Informetrics from Elsevier |
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