Scientometry

Scientometry is the scientific field of study that studies the progression and value of science through the number of scientific articles published in a given period of time.

Science has for long been coping with the problem of the evaluation of scientific information. Efforts to avoid subjectivity in the qualitative procedure of assessing the value of a work have led to numerous expert assessment procedures, such as making reviews by more than one reviewers, or the reviewer being unknown, or the author being unknown, and so on. Even so the subjectivity of the procedure had not been reduced. The development of the society on the whole, and the information technology in particular, has created the conditions for objective (quantitative) evaluation of scientific work. Within the methodology, a specific activity of evaluating the scientific performance — scientometry or the "metric evaluation of science" — is being developed. Its essence is exactly the measuring of an individual an institution, or an organization's contribution to the science, based on the following indicators: academic performance measured by the number of papers published and reviewed in eminent (scientifically recognized) magazines, and by the number of times these papers are cited in other authors' papers, in scientifically recognized magazines as well.

External links

* " [http://scientometry.net/ The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science] " exhibit at the American Museum of Science and Energy, September 7, 2007 – January 7, 2008.
* " [http://ictac.org/ictacnews/articles/dec99/revart18.pdf Is Scientometry Harmful? (What we can expect from bibliometric researching?)] " article.