Revolutions in science: The proposal of an approach for the identification of most important researchers, institutions and countries based on co-citation reference publication year spectroscopy exemplified at research on physical modelling of Earth’s climate

Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS) is a bibliometric method originally introduced to reveal the historical roots of research topics or fields. RPYS does not identify most highly cited papers publication set being studied (as usually done by analyses in evaluation), but instead it indicates frequently referenced publications – each within specific reference year. In this study, we propose use important researchers, institutions, and countries context breakthrough research. To do so, focus on physical modeling Earth’s climate prediction global warming as an example. Klaus Hasselmann (KH) Syukuro Manabe (SM) were both honoured with Nobel Prize 2021 for their fundamental contributions warming. Our results that able countries. our example, all relevant authors’ institutions are located United States. These either centers two US National Research Administrations (NASA NOAA) universities: University Arizona, Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute Technology (MIT), Stony Brook. The limitations approach discussed.