Bibliometrics and citation analysis from the Science citation index to cybermetrics /

• Main Author: De Bellis, Nicola, 1969-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, c2009.
• Subjects: Bibliometrics.; Information science > Statistical methods.; Scientific literature > Statistical methods.; Technical literature > Statistical methods.; Bibliographical citations.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General. > Library & Information Science; Electronic books.
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Can the methods of science be directed toward science itself? How did it happen that scientists, scientific documents, and their bibliographic links came to be regarded as mathematical variables in abstract models of scientific communication? What is therole of quantitative analyses of scientific an...

Table of Contents:

• Biblio/sciento/infor-metrics : terminological issues and early historical developments
• The empirical foundations of bibliometrics : the Science citation index
• The philosophical foundations of bibliometrics : Bernal, Merton, Price, Garfield, and Small
• The mathematical foundations of bibliometrics
• Maps and paradigms : bibliographic citations at the service of the history and sociology of science
• Impact factor and the evaluation of scientists : bibliographic citations at the service of science policy and management
• On the shoulders of dwarfs : citation as rhetorical device and the criticisms to the normative model
• Measuring scientific communication in the twentieth century : from bibliometrics to cybermetrics.