A Survey of Informetric Methods and Technologies
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A SURVEY OF INFORMETRIC METHODS AND TECHNOLOGIES Yu. M. Hlavcheva,1 O. V. Kanishcheva,2† and N. V. Borysova2‡
UDC 004.9
Abstract. A survey of informetric methods and technologies is presented. Problems and directions of informetrics are defined. The interrelations between the concepts such as scientometrics, bibliometrics, informetrics, webometrics, and altmetrics are shown. The existing informetric models and methods and also topical problems of informetrics are analyzed. Available analytic-and-search scientometric databases and systems are considered and their drawbacks and advantages are revealed. Characteristics of scientometric systems, their components, and factors that affect scientometric indices are determined. Based on the conducted research, promising directions for developing scientometric systems are formulated. Keywords: scientometrics, informetrics, scientometric system, bibliometric system, metric, citation index. INTRODUCTION Scientific achievements and technical progress predetermine a sustainable state development due to a competitive economy and industry, which promotes the improvement of the quality of life of citizens. In this direction, the topical problems are the improvement of available technologies and methods and creation of newest ones for the sake of · management of the scientific process; · quality assurance of the scientific process; · determination of priority directions for developing science; · ensuring of originality of academic works; · determination of the most influential research establishments and scientists. In the world, many technologies and methods are used to assess scientific activity. The following ones are most commonly used: expert judgment; the scientometric evaluation that is carried out based on bibliometric indicators; the comparison of financial and personnel (the number of scientists) resources spent for obtaining the result. One of the factors that influence decision making is the scientometric assessment of investigations (a scientific work). It must be reliable and must reflect the real state of things since, otherwise, the decisions made on its basis will be erroneous and inefficient. With allowance for large volumes of scientific information that should be processed to obtain scientometric data, software-hardware tools are created that contain specialized searching and analytical tools, namely, information-analytical systems (IASs), i.e., computer systems whose main destination is the efficient storage, processing, and analysis of data. A variation of IAS is a scientometric system (SS), i.e., a bibliographic and abstract database (DB) with analytical tools, capabilities of tracking article citations, and calculation of scientometric indicators. 1
Scientific and Technical Library of the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute,” Kharkiv, Ukraine, [email protected]. 2National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute,” Kharkiv, Ukraine, † [email protected]; ‡[email protected]. Translated from Kibernetika i S
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