Notion of a document: A center of "gravity attraction" for getting metricians together

V. S. Lazarev
1994 Scientometrics  
I agree with Gltinzel and Schoepflin when they mention that bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics are drifting apart. Moreover, I believe, that "drifting apart" is the main cause of the most of the other symptoms of the crisis mentioned by Gliinzel and Schoepflin. In fact, having separated themselves from each other, the subdomains of metricians could not be so effective in their activity: the lack of integrating personalities and the absence of the generalized notion of the field in
more » ... e recent handbooks seem to be rather a consequence, of the mentioned tendency, but not separate causes of the crisis since there are plenty of persons who are able to integrate the recent knowledge obtained in the subfields -but they have to have a good will to do it. I also think, that "lack of consensus in fundamental questions" mentioned by Gl~inzel and Schoepflin is not only the reason for negative image of scientometric research, but, first of all, a consequence of drifting apart of metricians resulting in the lack of apprehension of the notions that might be adopted by one subfield from another. That is why the above observation seems to be true also for bibliometricians and informetricians, being, therefore, a reason for similar impression of corresponding research. This negative image, in its turn, may be quite a sufficient reason for loosing financial support for investigations to be done for scientific disciplines, science policy and business.
doi:10.1007/bf02018132 fatcat:36s5mswgbjatpp7m4surceaoq4