In this study the citation-based impact of the works of the Russian physicist Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg has been analyzed by bibliometric methods. The time-dependent number of mentions of his name (informal citations), the overall reference-based impact (formal citations) and the number of citations of single articles and books have been investigated. The impact time curves (citation history) of his most frequently cited articles and books are presented and discussed. The scientific contributions of the most influential Ginzburg works are analyzed, in particular their impact on recent research.
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Cardona, M., Marx, W. (2009). Vitaly L. Ginzburg: A Bibliometric Study. In: On Superconductivity and Superfluidity. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68008-6_7
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