Bibliometrics
The quantitative study of a literature through its metadata — counting publications, citations and their patterns to say something about a field information-science-wikipedia. One of information-science's methodological contributions, and the oldest of the corpus's measurement traditions.
The family of "-metrics"
The article lists them as variants of one approach, split by what is being counted: bibliometrics (publications and citations), informetrics (information in general), scientometrics (science as an activity), cybermetrics and webometrics (the web), and altmetrics (attention outside formal citation — downloads, mentions, social sharing). All sit inside quantitative science studies.
Where it touches this wiki
- Cluster F measures how ideas spread — diffusion-of-innovations-wikipedia, technology-adoption-curve, gartner-hype-cycle, adoption-curve-measurement. Bibliometrics is the same question asked of the scholarly record, with a century of method behind it and data that already exists. The cluster's standing problem is that its instruments are qualitative or proprietary; citation counts are neither.
- orkg-predicate-redundancy is a scholarly-graph paper, so the corpus is already one step into this literature without naming it.
- The gap in the other direction is real: nothing here holds a bibliometric result, only the category. A specific finding — a citation-lag figure, an altmetric-to-citation correlation — would be the first.
Related
information-science · information-retrieval · technology-adoption-curve · adoption-curve-measurement · orkg-predicate-redundancy