What is bibliometrics?

Bibliometrics is a set of methods used to study or measure texts and information. Citation analysis and content analysis are commonly used bibliometric methods

What is bibliometrics?

Central variables in bibliometric evaluations is publications, authors, source materials and citations. You can examine how research is in a certain country, research area or research group. Researchers may use bibliometric methods of evaluation to determine the influence of a single writer, for example, or to describe the relationship between two or more writers or works

Bibliometric values

  • Number of publications
  • Number of citations
  • Number of citations per publication

You can also measure how often a paper in a certain journal is cited in relation to all other articles during the same period, or in the same group of journals during the same period (crown-indicator)

Bibliometrics, ranking and citation searching

More information about bibliometrics

[http://libguides.ltu.se/bibliometrics]

bibliometrisk_jamforelse.pdf

[http://www.ltu.se /cms_fs/1.49322!/file/bibliometrisk_jamforelse.pdf]

en fortsatt bibliometrisk studie för jämförelse mellan ltu och vissa andra europeiska universitet.pdf

[http://www.ltu.se /cms_fs/1.49322!/file/en%20fortsatt%20bibliometrisk%20studie%20f%C3%B6r%20j%C3%A4mf%C3%B6relse%20mellan%20ltu%20och%20vissa%20andra%20europeiska%20universitet.pdf]

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Published: 2 June 2009

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