"published in the year" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when talking about something that was published in a specific year. Example: "The book was published in the year 2010 and quickly became a bestseller."
The studies were conducted in USA, UK, or the Netherlands, and most were published in the year 2000 or later.
Moses and Monotheism was published in the year Hitler invaded Austria.
"God's Country," published in the year of the stock-market crash, flopped, and Barton never again tried anything so ambitious.
Mr. Farber's essay, published in the year of the first New York Film Festival, belongs to another age.
For his last "milestone" puzzle, No 1,750, Jonathan chose the theme of Gray's elegy, presumably because it was published in the year 1750.
Published in the year that women won equal voting rights, Orlando has the tone of a Candide or Gulliver's Travels: huge in its scope and yet helium-light.
His last work, published in the year of his death, is an impassioned essay with a desperate title: "Advertisements for the unexperienced Planters of New-England, or any where".
Louis Althusser linked Marxism, structuralism, and Lacanian psychoanalysis in his "Freud et Lacan" (1964; reprinted in Writings on Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan), which was published in the year that Foucault delivered his lecture "Nietzsche, Freud, Marx".
The Water Stealer (Faber), published in the year he turns 60, is only Riordan's fourth full-length collection – this is a poet who refuses to over-publish – and the care and dedication he devotes to his craft pay off here.
Published in the year of his murder by a neo-Fascist rent boy – 1975 – The Divine Mimesis bristles with Pasolini's abhorrence of American-style materialism and Christian Democrat-tainted political opportunism.
