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Can scientific methods be directed toward science itself? How did scientists, scientific documents, and their bibliographic links come to be regarded as mathematical variables in abstract models of scientific communication? What is the role of quantitative analyses of scientific and technical documentation in current policy and management? Bibliometrics and Citation Analysis: From the Science Citation Index to Cybermetrics answers these questions through a comprehensive overview of theories, techniques, concepts, and applications in the interdisciplinary and steadily growing field of bibliometrics.

Nicola De Bellis is a medical librarian at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy.

Preface	p. vii
Bibliographic Notice	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Biblio/Sciento/Infor-metrics: Terminological Issues and Early Historical Developments	p. 1
The Empirical Foundations of Bibliometrics: The Science Citation Index	p. 23
The Philosophical Foundations of Bibliometrics: Bernal, Merton, Price, Garfield, and Small	p. 49
The Mathematical Foundations of Bibliometrics	p. 75
Maps and Paradigms: Bibliographic Citations at the Service of the History and Sociology of Science	p. 141
Impact Factor and the Evaluation of Scientists: Bibliographic Citations at the Service of Science Policy and Management	p. 181
On the Shoulders of Dwarfs: Citation as Rhetorical Device and the Criticisms to the Normative Model	p. 243
Measuring Scientific Communication in the Twentieth Century: From Bibliometrics to Cybermetrics	p. 285
Conclusions	p. 335
Selected Bibliography	p. 339
Index	p. 395
About the Author	p. 417
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