Bibliometrics Study

This book presents a through and accessible account of Bibliometrics Study. Bibliometrics is the use of statistical methods to analyse books articles and other publications. Bibliometric methods are frequently used in the field of library and information science. The sub-field of bibliometrics which concerns itself with the analysis of scientific publications is called scientometrics. Citation analysis is a commonly used bibliometric method which is based on constructing the citation graph a network or graph representation of the citations between documents.There are various definitions used for bibliometrics essentially bibliometrics is the application of quantitative analysis and statistics to publications such as journal articles and their accompanying citation counts. Quantitative evaluation of publication and citation data is now used in almost all nations around the globe with a sizeable science enterprise. Bibliometrics is used in research performance evaluation especially in university and government labs and also by policymakers research directors and administrators information specialists and librarians and researchers themselves.