Theories of informetrics and scholarly communication / / edited by Cassidy R. Sugimoto.
Scientometrics have become an essential element in the practice and evaluation of science and research, including both the evaluation of individuals and national assessment exercises. Yet, researchers and practitioners in this field have lacked clear theories to guide their work. As early as 1981, t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin, [Germany] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : De Gruyter,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (438 p.) |
| Notes: | "A Festschrift in honor of Blaise Cronin." |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Foreword
- Prologue
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Incessant Chattering of Texts
- Informetrics Needs a Foundation in the Theory of Science
- Referencing as Cooperation or Competition
- Semiotics and Citations
- Data Citation as a Bibliometric Oxymoron
- Type–Token Theory and Bibliometrics
- From a Success Index to a Success Multiplier
- From Matthew to Hirsch: A Success-Breeds-Success Story
- Information’s Magic Numbers: The Numerology of Information Science
- Authors as Persons and Authors as Bundles of Words
- The Angle Sum Theory: Exploring the Literature on Acknowledgments in Scholarly Communication
- The Flesh of Science: Somatics and Semiotics
- Informetric Analyses of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOSs)
- Information, Meaning, and Intellectual Organization in Networks of Inter-Human Communication
- Modeling the Structure and Dynamics of Science Using Books
- Webometrics and Altmetrics: Home Birth vs. Hospital Birth
- Scientific Revolution in Scientometrics: The Broadening of Impact from Citation to Societal
- Altmetrics as Traces of the Computerization of the Research Process
- Interpreting ‘Altmetrics’: Viewing Acts on Social Media through the Lens of Citation and Social Theories
- Biographical information for the editor and contributors
- Index