Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-394) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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 and technical documentation in current science policy and management? Bibliometrics and Citation Analysis: From the Science Citation Index to Cybermetrics answers these questions through a comprehensive overview of theories, techniques, concepts, and applications in the interdisciplinary and steadily.
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MIL
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252108
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Title
Bibliometrics and citation analysis.
International Standard Book Number
0810867133
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Bibliographical citations.
Bibliometrics.
Information science-- Statistical methods.
Scientific literature-- Statistical methods.
Technical literature-- Statistical methods.
Bibliometrics.
Bibliographical citations.
Bibliometrics.
Information science-- Statistical methods.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Library & Information Science-- General.