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Bibliometrics

Bibliometrics is the application of statistical methods to the study of bibliographic data, especially in scientific and library and information science contexts. It is closely associated with scientometrics (the analysis of scientific metrics and indicators), to the point that both fields largely overlap.

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Bibliometrics and open science

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related to Journal articles · 391
Bibliometrics → Abhay, Academic, Access, Akbaritabar, Alan, Albornoz, Alejandro, Alessandro, Alex, Alexander, Alfred, Aliakbar, Alvite Díez, American Psychologists, American Society, Amrein, An, An Overview, Andrea, Andrés
related to Books & thesis · 132
Bibliometrics → Abuses, Alphonse, Amsterdam, An Introduction, April, Arts, August, Ball, Bellis, Benoît, Beyond Bibliometrics, Biagioli, Blaise, Bourne, Bruxelles, Cambridge, Campbell, Candolle, Cassidy, Centre Urbanisation Culture Société
related to Book sections · 99
Bibliometrics → Academic Publishing, Alejandro, Ali, Altmetrics, Andreas, Applications, Ball, Begun, Bibliometrics Heading, Chan, Classification, Connecting, CRC Press, Danesh, David, De Gruyter Saur, December, Derek De Solla Price, Dirk, Dordrecht
related to Periodical crisis, digitization and citation index (1945–1960) · 29
Bibliometrics → After, Automated, Bernal, Beyond, Derek John, During, English, Eugen Garfield, Hans Peter Luhn, IBM, In, Influent, John Desmond Bernal, Joshua Ledeberg, Ledeberg, National Science Foundation, November, Otlet, Paul Otlet, Royal Society
related to Bibliometric reductionism, metrics, and structuration of a research field (1960–1990) · 22
Bibliometrics → As Francis Joseph Cole, Bernal, Big Science, British, Derek John, Derek Price, Eales, John Desmond Bernal, Little Science, Matthew Effect, Merton, Nellie, Networks, Paul Otlet, Price, Robert, Science Citation Index, Science Since Babylon, Scientific Papers, Significant
related to Development of bibliography statistics (1910–1945) · 17
Bibliometrics → After, American Chemical Society, Both, Eales, Edward Wyndham Hulme, English, Five, Francis Joseph Cole, German, Gross, If, In, Journal, Nellie, The, This, Yet
related to Conferences · 15
Bibliometrics → Comparison, Haunschild, Heather, Jason, June, Microsoft Academic Graph, OpenAlex, Orr, Piwowar, Priem, Richard, Robin, Scheidsteger, STI, Thomas
related to The Web turn (1990–present) · 15
Bibliometrics → August, CERN, Consequently, Digital Revolution, ENQUIRE, Garfield's, Google, In, Sharing, The, The WWW, Tim Berners-Lee, We, Web, World Wide Web
related to From altmetrics to open metrics · 12
Bibliometrics → After, As, Berlin, Bethesda, Budapest, By, In, Key, OA, Science, Stevan Harnad, Web
related to Bibliometrics and open science · 11
Bibliometrics → Before, Derek, Garfield, John Desmond Bernal, Paul Otlet, Science Citation Index, Small, Solla Price, The, Web, Whereas Bernal's

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Bibliometricsis aapplication of statistical methods to the study of bibliographic data0.90text
Bibliometricsis aquantitative study of physical published units0.90text
Bibliometricsis adistinct field from scientometrics0.90text
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