Referenced Publication Years Spectroscopy applied to iMetrics: Scientometrics, Journal of Informetrics, and a relevant subset of JASIST

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Highlights：

• Referenced Publication Years Spectroscopy (RPYS) is used to show the historical origins of iMetrics (information metrics, bibliometrics, and scientometrics) in scholarly literature.

• Whereas Lotka (1926) is indicated as the first source, the intellectual program of iMetrics was shaped only in the early 1960s.

• The Journal of Informetrics has bridged research traditions in quantitative science studies (Scientometrics) and the information sciences (JASIST).

• RPYS is routinized and a program is made available at the Internet (at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/rpys).

摘要

•Referenced Publication Years Spectroscopy (RPYS) is used to show the historical origins of iMetrics (information metrics, bibliometrics, and scientometrics) in scholarly literature.•Whereas Lotka (1926) is indicated as the first source, the intellectual program of iMetrics was shaped only in the early 1960s.•The Journal of Informetrics has bridged research traditions in quantitative science studies (Scientometrics) and the information sciences (JASIST).•RPYS is routinized and a program is made available at the Internet (at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/rpys).

论文关键词：Cited references,Historiography,Citation classics,iMetrics

论文评审过程：Received 23 September 2013, Revised 20 November 2013, Accepted 20 November 2013, Available online 10 December 2013.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2013.11.006