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Publication and citation data are used to analyse the dynamics of the theoretical highenergy physics specialty “Monte Carlo methods in lattice field theory”. The present study is based on a comprehensive bibliography of the given subject area for the six-year period 1979–1984 and the 1979–1985 citations to these papers. The application of a recently introduced set of scientometric indicators provides clues to undertanding the growth of a new research specialty from a core body of seminal literature.
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Czerwon, H.J. Scientometric indicators for a specialty in theoretical high-energy physics: Monte Carlo methods in lattice field theory. Scientometrics 18, 5–20 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02019159
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