A simplified and sometimes vulgar understanding of the role scientometrics in science management makes it necessary to better understand its essential characteristics. In this paper, is considered interrelations with bibliometrics informetrics that are fields knowledge closest it.In relation bibliometrics, informetrics, part discusses representationof their object. Its reinterpretation using mo...

Scientometrics is a valuable asset in science management. However, application of scientometric indicators the sociohumanistic sciences reveals some drawbacks. The problems assessing researcher efficiency are analyzed and several solutions proposed. number citations STEMS terms languages presented Web Science. author agrees with expert opinion that research activities social humanities cannot b...

Citations among research papers, and the networks they form, are the primary object of study in scientometrics. The act of making a citation reflects the citer’s knowledge of the related literature, and of the work being cited. We aim to gain insight into this process by studying citation keys: usergenerated labels to identify a cited work. Our main observation is that the first listed author i...

The first of these directs readers to the source of knowledge that have been variously drawn upon in the particular work or are held to be otherwise relevant. . . . However . . . citations are not only essential bibliographic aids for scientists and scholars concerned to assess data and knowledge claims in the citing text or to retrieve further apt information. Along with providing a historical...

Scholars are increasingly using the microblogging service Twitter as a communication platform. Since citing is a central practice of scholarly communication, we investigated whether and how scholars cite on Twitter. We conducted interviews and harvested 46,515 tweets from a sample of 28 scholars and found that they do cite on Twitter, though often indirectly. Twitter citations are part of a fas...