iMetrics: the development of the discipline with many names
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iMetrics: the development of the discipline with many names Daria Maltseva1 · Vladimir Batagelj1,2,3 Received: 11 January 2020 © Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary 2020
Abstract Different research traditions have developed over time to study the quantitative aspects of information and knowledge production, such as scientometrics, bibliometrics, librametrics, informetrics, cybermetrics, webometrics, or altmetrics. These information metrics, or iMetrics, as they were labeled by Milojević and Leydesdorff in Scientometrics 95(1):141–157, 2013, are unified by the usage of quantitative data analysis, applying various statistical methods and techniques and are often used to supplement and complement each other. Representing different research traditions, they jointly form a common research field, a “discipline with many names”. In this article, we look at the development of iMetrics field and its evolution over time using bibliometric network analysis and identify its common basis, formed by the most important publications, journals, scholars and topics. The data‑ set consists of articles from the Web of Science database (26,414 records with complete descriptions). Analyzing the citation network, we evaluate the field’s growth and identify the most cited works. Using the Search path count (SPC) approach, we extract the Main path, Key routes paths, and Link islands in the citation network. The results show that in the last forty years the number of published papers increased, and it doubles every 8 years; the number of single author papers dropped from 50 to 10 %, and the number of papers authored by 3 or more authors is increasing. We make the conclusions about the field’s development and its current state. We also present the main authors, journals and keywords from the field, which form its common basis. Keywords Scientometrics · Bibliometrics · Librametrics · Informetrics · Cybermetrics · Webometrics · Altmetrics · Development of scientific fields · Social network analysis · Citation network · Search path count · Web of Science
* Daria Maltseva [email protected] Vladimir Batagelj [email protected]‑lj.si 1
National Research University Higher School of Economics, Pokrovsky Boulevard 10, Moscow, Russia 101000
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Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Jadranska 19, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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University of Primorska, Andrej Marušič Institute, 6000 Koper, Slovenia
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Scientometrics
Introduction At the intersection of information science, technology, and social studies of science, there are different research traditions studying the quantitative aspects of information and knowl‑ edge production: scientometrics, bibliometrics, librametrics, informetrics, cybermetrics, webometrics, or altmetrics. Each of these terms highlights a special facet of information and knowledge production, having its own area of specialization, in the analysis of the structure and properties of information and communication in scientific (sciento-) or any other types of documents in any field (bibli
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