Information metrics (iMetrics): a research specialty with a socio-cognitive identity?
Staša Milojević, Loet Leydesdorff
2012
Scientometrics
"Bibliometrics", "scientometrics", "informetrics", and "webometrics" can all be considered as manifestations of a single research area with similar objectives and methods, which we call "information metrics ...
This study explores the cognitive and social distinctness of iMetrics with respect to the general information science (IS), focusing on a core of researchers, shared vocabulary and literature/knowledge ...
For example, in her review of "informetrics" (what we call iMetrics) literature, Bar-Ilan (2008) found that Scientometrics and JASIST have the largest number of informetrics articles, with Research Policy ...
doi:10.1007/s11192-012-0861-z
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