  In this paper we present a phenomenological approach to describe a complex
system: scientific research impact through Citation Mining. The novel concept
of Citation Mining, a combination of citation bibliometrics and text mining, is
used for the phenomenological description. Citation Mining starts with a group
of core papers whose impact is to be examined, retrieves the papers that cite
these core papers, and then analyzes the technical infrastructure (authors,
jorunals, institutions) of the citing papers as well as their thematic
characteristics.
