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Bibliometrics

Scientometrics

Some elements of bibliometrics

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Bibliometric Laws or Distributions:

  Bradford's Law of Scattering
  Lotka's Laws
  Zipf's Law
* Citation and cocitation analysis
* Bibliographic coupling
* Indicators of research performance
* Resources

 

 

Resources
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Borgman, C. L. (1989). Bibliometrics and scholarly communication. Communication Research, 16, 583-599.

Borgman, C. L. (1990). (Ed.). Scholarly Communication and Bibliometrics. Newbury Park: Sage.

Borgman, C. L. (2000). Digital libraries and the continuum of scholarly communication. Journal of Documentation, 56 (4), 412-430.

Borgman, C.L., & Furner, J. (2002). Scholarly communication and bibliometrics. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 36. Retrieved November 27, 2006, from: http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/jfurner/arist02.pdf

Budd, J.M., & Seavey, C.A. (1990). Characteristics of Journal Authorship by Academic Librarians. College & Research Libraries, (September): 463-470.

Ekman, R., &Quandt, R. E. (1999). (eds.) Technology and Scholarly Communication. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Lu, S. (1998). The Transition to the Virtual World in Formal Scholarly Communication: A Comparative Study of the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences. (A Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles).

Rogers, S. J., & Hunt, C. S. (1990). How scholarly communication should work in the 21st century. College & Research Libraries, 5, 5-6, 8.

Steinke, C. A. (1991). Information seeking and communication behavior or scientists and engineers. Science & Technology Libraries, 11(3): 1-116.

The Impact of Electronic Publishing on Scholarly Communication: http://www.istl.org/00-fall/conf.html

The Scholarly Communication Center, Rutgers University Libraries http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/scchome/about/about_scc.htm

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