%0 Generic %1 hjorland_bibliometrics_2007 %A Hjorland, B. %D 2007 %K imported %T Bibliometrics %U http://www.db.dk/bh/Core\%20Concepts\%20in\%20LIS/articles\%20a-z/bibliometrics.htm %X Bibliometrics Bibliometrics means literally "book measurement" but the term is used about all kinds of documents (with journal articles as the dominant kind of document). What is measured are not the physical properties of documents but statistical patterns in variables such as authorship, sources, subjects, geographical origins, and citations. "The definition and purpose of bibliometrics is to shed light on the process of written communications and of the nature and course of a discipline (in so far as this is displayed through written communication) by means of counting and analyzing the various facets of written communication. (Pritchard, 1969.)" (Here quoted from Nicholas & Ritchie, 1978). Egghe & Rousseau (1990) write: "Historically, bibliometrics developed mainly in the West, and arose from statistical studies of bibliographies. Before the term "bibliometrics" was proposed by Pritchard (1969), the term "statistical bibliography" was in some use. According to Prichard (1969), it was Hulme (1923) who initiated the term "statistical bibliography". Hulme used the term to describe the process of illuminating the history of science and technology by counting documents. Pritchard's timely proposal caught on immediately, but the content of the term remained somewhat of a problem (Broadus, 1987). According to Prichard, bibliometrics means the application of mathematics and statistical methods to books and other communication media". Bibliometrics is particularly related to research in scientific communication. Schmidmaier (1984) discuss the history of bibliometrics and demonstrates its relation to the concept "the science of science", which is traced to lectures given by Carl Christian Friedrich Krause in 1829. In the former USSR was G. M. Dobrov's investigation of the science of science from 1966 a pioneer work. The first genuine bibliometric investigation was published in 1917 by Cole and Eales, who analyzed books published between 1550 and 1860 with regards to developments in subject matter. Investigations by P. L. K. Gross in 1927 and H. H. Henkle in 1938 on biochemical literature together with later works by S. R. Ranganathan (1969) and Solla Price (1976) belong to the foundational literature of bibliometrics (Ranganathan proposed the term 'librametrics' in 1948). In European information science journals bibliometric investigations began to be popular in the 1970ties and 1980ties. Hungary, Eastern Germany and Schwitzerland belong to the countries, which early started to do research in bibliometrics. Literature: Cronin, B. (1984). The Citation Process. The role and significance of citations in scientific communication. London: Taylor Graham Publishing. Diodato, V. (1994). Dictionary of Bibliometrics. New York: The Haworth Press. Egghe, L. & Ronald Rousseau, R. (1990). Introduction to Infometrics. Quantitative Methods in Library, Documentation and Information Science. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Garfield, E. (1980). Bradford's Law and Related Statistical patterns. Current Contents. May 12, 5-12. HjØrland, B. (1981). Bibliometriske analyser i psykologien. Nordisk Psykologi, 33(3), 176-190. http://www.db.dk/binaries/bibliometriske\%20analyser.pdf MacRoberts, M. H. & MacRoberts, B. R. (1989). Problems of Citation Analysis: A Critical Review. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 40, 342-349. Nicholas, D. & Ritchie, M. (1978). Literature and bibliometrics. London: Clive Bingley. NØrretranders, T. & Haaland, T. (1990). Dansk dynamit. Dansk forsknings internationale status vurderes ud fra bibliometriske indikatorer. KØbenhavn: Forskningspolitisk r\aad, Statens Informationstjeneste. Persson, O. (1992). Forskning i bibliometrisk belysning. Ume\aa: INUM Publishing Division. Borgman, C. L. (Ed.). (1990). Scholary communication and bibliometrics. London: Sage. Schmidmaier, D. (1984). Zur Geschichte der Bibliometrie. Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, 98(9), 1984, 404-406. --- Timeline of bibliometrics: http://users.pandora.be/ronald.rousseau/html/timeline\_of\_bibliometrics.html Palmquist, R. A. (2000). Bibliometrics. http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/\~palmquis/courses/biblio.html See also: Bibliometric Knowledge Organization; Information science methods Informetrics; Scientometrics; Webometrics

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