Bibliometrician
A bibliometrician is a researcher or a specialist in bibliometrics. It is near-synonymous with an informetrican (who studies informetrics), a scientometrican (who study scientometrics) and a webometrician, who study webometrics.
Notable bibliometricians
[edit]- Christine L. Borgman[1]
- Samuel C. Bradford[2]
- Blaise Cronin[3]
- Margaret Elizabeth Egan[4]
- Eugene Garfield (developer of the Science Citation Index and the Impact factor)[5]
- Jorge E. Hirsch (developer of the h-index)[6]
- Alfred J. Lotka[7]
- Vasily Nalimov[8]
- Derek J. de Solla Price[9]
- Ronald Rousseau[10]
- George Kingsley Zipf[11]
See also
[edit]- Institute for Scientific Information
- International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (an association of professionals in the fields).
References
[edit]- ^ Borgman, Christine L. (October 1989). "Bibliometrics and Scholarly Communication: Editor's Introduction". Communication Research. 16 (5): 583–599. doi:10.1177/009365089016005002.
- ^ Budd, John M. (1988). "A Bibliometric Analysis of Higher Education Literature". Research in Higher Education. 28 (2): 180–190. ISSN 0361-0365.
- ^ O'Connor, Daniel (July 2016). "Beyond Bibliometrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Intent". Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 67 (7): 1780–1783. doi:10.1002/asi.23632.
- ^ Furner, Jonathan (Spring 2004). "A Brilliant Mind: Margaret Egan and Social Epistemology". Library Trends. 52 (4): 792–809.
- ^ "Eugene Garfield - an overview". ScienceDirect Topics.
- ^ Shah, Faaiz Ali; Jawaid, Shaukat Ali (24 January 2023). "The h-Index: An Indicator of Research and Publication Output". Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences. 39 (2). doi:10.12669/pjms.39.2.7398. PMC 10025721.
- ^ Center For Naval Analyses (March 1, 1978). "Bibliometric Studies of Scientific Productivity". Defense Technical Information Center.
- ^ Hood, William W.; Wilson, Concepción S. (2001). "The Literature of Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, and Informetrics". Scientometrics. 52 (2): 291–314. doi:10.1023/A:1017919924342.
- ^ Garfield, E. (March 1985). "In tribute to Derek John de Solla Price: a citation analysis of little science, big sicence". Scientometrics. 7 (3–6): 487–503. doi:10.1007/BF02017163.
- ^ Rousseau, Ronald (June 2014). "Forgotten founder of bibliometrics". Nature. 510 (7504): 218–218. doi:10.1038/510218e.
- ^ Kanwal, Jasmeen; Smith, Kenny; Culbertson, Jennifer; Kirby, Simon (August 2017). "Zipf's Law of Abbreviation and the Principle of Least Effort: Language users optimise a miniature lexicon for efficient communication". Cognition. 165: 45–52. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2017.05.001. hdl:20.500.11820/c0d09559-27af-429b-b624-f5d32c517165.