Which Are the Most Influential Cited References in Information?

Abstract

This bibliometric study presents the most influential cited references for papers published in the journal Information by using reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS). A total of 30,960 references cited in 996 papers in the journal Information, published between 2012 and 2019, were analyzed in this study. In total, 29 peaks with 48 peak papers are presented and discussed. The most influential cited references are related to set theory and machine learning which is consistent with the scope of the journal. A single peak paper was published in the journal Information. Overall, authors publishing in the journal Information have drawn from many different sources (e.g., journal papers, books, book chapters, and conference proceedings).

Analysis of Cited References in Russian Publications on Web of Science

“…Recently, this kind of analysis has often been linked to the term "Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS)", which was coined in the study of cited references in research papers carried out by Marx et al [1] and further elaborated in other analyses conducted by Barth et al, [2] Bornmann and Marx, [3] Leydesdorff et al, [4] Thor et al, [5,6] Marx et al, [7] or Thor et al [8] One of the main goals of RPYS is to identify the so-called historical roots (origins), milestones, or landmark papers in a certain scientific discipline, journal, or region. To this end, Bornmann et al [9] applied the RPYS method to the publications by a single researcher (Eugene Garfield), Haunschild [10] to a specific journal (Information), Ballandonne and Cersosimo [11] to a group of journals in management, economics, and finance, Comins and Hussey [12] to global positioning system (GPS) papers, Comins and Leydesdorff [13] to biomedical research, and Fiala and Bornmann [14] to Eastern European computer science research. Furthermore, by means of RPYS, Elango et al [15] detected the historical roots of tribology research, Hou [16] of citation analysis, Li et al [17] of various research fields in China, Khasseh and Mokhtarpour [18] of the field of knowledge management, Millán et al [19] of social psychology in Brazil, Wray and Bornmann [20] of philosophy of science, and Yeung and Wong [21] of visual analogue scale in psychology.…”