Bibliometrician Explained

A bibliometrician is a researcher or a specialist in bibliometrics. It is near-synonymous with an informetrican (who studies informetrics), a scientometrican (who study scientometrics) and a webometrician, who study webometrics.

Notable bibliometricians

• Christine L. Borgman^[1]
• Samuel C. Bradford^[2]
• Blaise Cronin^[3]
• Margaret Elizabeth Egan^[4]
• Eugene Garfield (developer of the Science Citation Index and the Impact factor)^[5]
• Jorge E. Hirsch (developer of the h-index)^[6]
• Alfred J. Lotka^[7]
• Vasily Nalimov^[8]
• Derek J. de Solla Price^[9]
• Ronald Rousseau^[10]
• George Kingsley Zipf^[11]

See also

• Institute for Scientific Information
• International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (an association of professionals in the fields).

Notes and References

1. Borgman . Christine L. . Bibliometrics and Scholarly Communication: Editor's Introduction . Communication Research . October 1989 . 16 . 5 . 583–599 . 10.1177/009365089016005002.
2. Budd . John M. . A Bibliometric Analysis of Higher Education Literature . Research in Higher Education . 1988 . 28 . 2 . 180–190 . 0361-0365.
3. O'Connor . Daniel . Beyond Bibliometrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Intent. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology . July 2016 . 67 . 7 . 1780–1783 . 10.1002/asi.23632.
4. Furner . Jonathan . A Brilliant Mind: Margaret Egan and Social Epistemology . Library Trends . Spring 2004 . 52 . 4 . 792-809.
5. Web site: Eugene Garfield - an overview . ScienceDirect Topics.
6. Shah . Faaiz Ali . Jawaid . Shaukat Ali . The h-Index: An Indicator of Research and Publication Output . Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences . 24 January 2023 . 39 . 2 . 10.12669/pjms.39.2.7398. 10025721 .
7. Web site: Center For Naval Analyses. Bibliometric Studies of Scientific Productivity . Defense Technical Information Center . March 1, 1978.
8. Hood . William W. . Wilson . Concepción S. . The Literature of Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, and Informetrics . Scientometrics . 2001 . 52 . 2 . 291–314 . 10.1023/A:1017919924342.
9. Garfield . E. . In tribute to Derek John de Solla Price: a citation analysis of little science, big sicence . Scientometrics . March 1985 . 7 . 3-6 . 487–503 . 10.1007/BF02017163.
10. Rousseau . Ronald . Forgotten founder of bibliometrics . Nature . June 2014 . 510 . 7504 . 218–218 . 10.1038/510218e.
11. Kanwal . Jasmeen . Smith . Kenny . Culbertson . Jennifer . Kirby . Simon . Zipf’s Law of Abbreviation and the Principle of Least Effort: Language users optimise a miniature lexicon for efficient communication . Cognition . August 2017 . 165 . 45–52 . 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.05.001. 20.500.11820/c0d09559-27af-429b-b624-f5d32c517165 . free .