Developing and applying a metric for estimating trends in databases of articles : its possible use in research and science policy

Levitt, Jonathan M. Developing and applying a metric for estimating trends in databases of articles : its possible use in research and science policy., 2006 . In International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Seventh COLLNET Meeting, Nancy (France), May 10 - 12, 2006. (Unpublished) [Conference paper]

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The research presented very briefly in this paper aims to develop and apply a metric for estimating trends in databases of articles. The motivation for estimating trends in these databases is that these trends are possibly of interest in research and science policy. The objectives of this paper are to introduce the metric (called ‘absolute term incidences’), and to compare this metric with the metric used by Braun and Schubert and Gu (called ‘term frequencies’), in addition to briefly present some potential uses and limitations of absolute term incidences. This research is part of my Doctoral project on bibliometrics and policy.

Item type:	Conference paper
Keywords:	bibliometrics absolute term incidences
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
Depositing user:	Heather G Morrison
Date deposited:	19 Apr 2006
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:03
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/7431

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H. Small, Paradigms, citations, and maps of science: A personal history, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54 (5):394-399, American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2003.

T. Braun and A. Schubert, A quantitative view on the coming of age of interdisciplinarity in the sciences 1980-1999, Scientometrics, 58(1):183-189, Akadémiai Kiadó, co-published with Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2003.

Y. N. Gu, Global knowledge management research: A bibliometric analysis, Scientometrics, 61(2):171-190, Akadémiai Kiadó, co-published with Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2004.

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