bibliometrics

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N. ANITHA
MLIS 2
nd
YEAR

2. THE CONCEPT OF BIBLIOMETRICS
ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT
DEFINITION AND MEANING
SCOPE OF BIBLIOMETRICS
BIBLIOMETRICS LAWS
BIBLIOMETRICS SOFTWARE
APPLICATION OF BIBLIOMETICS
LIMITATIONS OF BIBLIOMETRICS METHODS.
CONCLUSION CUM ADVANTAGES

3.
ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT
• The historical review says that
F.J. Cole
and
Nellie B. Eates
presented the first recorded
study on “bibliometrics”in
1917
in science
progress.
• Hulme
was the first to use the expression
‘statistical bibliography’in
1923
.
• One of the pioneers was
PRITCHARD
suggested the word ‘
bibliometircs
’in
1969
.

4.
DEFINITION AND MEANINGS
• Bibliometrics-divided into two words
– Biblio - Latin/Greek Word –‘Books’
– Metrics - Latin/Greek Words –‘Measurement’.
– Bibliometrics to denote application of mathematica l and statistical
methods to book. This is called as a quantitative a nalysis.
• According to
Hawkins (1977)
defined bibliometrics as “ the
application of quantitative analysis in the bibliog raphic references of
the body of literature”
• The
British Standard Institution
(1976) described the same
bibliometrics as the “application of mathematical a nd statistical
methods in the study of the use of documents and st atistical methods
in the study of the use of documents and publicatio n patterns.”

5. SCOPE OF BIBLIOMETRICS
DESCRIPTIVE
STUDIES
EVALUATION
STUDIES
Productive count
Which attempts to study the
body of literature by
counting its contributing
countries, authors, journals,
year of publication, and
disciplines.
Literature usage count Which attempts to study
the use of a body of
literature by using citation
analysis.

6. BIBLIOMETRICS LAWS
• LOTKA’S LAW
(1926)
author’s Productivity
• BRODFORD’S LAW
(1934)
scattering
• ZIPF’S LAW
(1949)
word frequency

7.
BIBLIOMETRICS SOFTWARE
• THE BIBLIOMETRICS TOOLBOX-
the bibliometrics
toolbox was first bibliometrics programmed package. It
has developed T.A.Brookes to assist bibliometrician s in
preparing statistics form their down loaded data.
• DATAVIEW BIBLOMETRICS SOFTWARE FOR
ANALYSIS OF DOWNLOADED DATA-
dataview is
commercial software.
• BIBEXCEL
–
this software is designed to assists a user
in analyzing bibliographic data, or any data of tex tural
nature formatted in a similar manner.
• BIBTECHMON-
commercial product

8.
APPLICATION OF BIBLIOMETRICS
• To study
research trends
and growth of knowledge.
• To estimate comprehensiveness of secondary
periodicals.
• To identify users of different subjects.
• To identify authorship trends
in documents on
various subjects.
• To measure the usefulness of
retrospective
and
current awareness services
.

9. APPLICATION OF BIBLIOMETRICS
• To identify past, present
publishing trends
as well
as forecast future publishing trends.
• To develop
experimental
models.
• To identify
core periodicals
in different
disciplines (through application of Bradford's law
of scattering and citation analysis)
• To formulate stacking and
weeding
policies.
• To initiate effective multilevel network system.

10. APPLICATION OF BIBLIOMETRICS
• To formulate collection development/ management
policy.
• To study obsolescence and dispersion of
scientific
literature.
• To study productivity of institutions/ individuals and
disciplines.
• To develop norms for
standardization
.
• To design automated language processing for auto
indexing, auto classification and auto abstracting

11. LIMITATION OF BIBLIOMETRICS
• More formula oriented .
• Bibliometric study does not include the
informal
publications
and communications. Therefore, the
scientific development cannot be predicted properly.
•
The bibliometrical references, which are taken for citation analysis study, are not always standardized.
•
this causes problem while ranking the authors on the basis of the frequency of their getting citatio ns.

12. LIMITATION OF BIBLIOMETRICS
• For example,
the author S.R. Ranganathan has
been cited variously as Siyali Ramamrita
Ranganathan , S. Ranganathan and S. R.
Ranganathan. This may cause scattering of
citations of same person-works.
• At the same time it may also happen that there
may be more than one author under the same
name and it may be difficult to distinguish them.

13. CONCLUSION CUM ADVANTAGES
• Bibliometrics is a type of research method used in
library and information science
.
• It is a quantitative study of various aspects of
literature on a topic and is used to identify the p attern
of publications authorship and secondary journal
coverage with the objective of getting an insight i nto
the dynamics of
growth of knowledge
in the areas
under consideration.
• The adoption of bibliometrics techniques in variou s
disciplines stimulate
stunning growth of literature
on
bibliometrics and its related areas.