This book provides an introduction to scientometrics. It discusses the history and development of analyzing literary information through informetrics, bibliometrics, scientometrics, webometrics, and cybermetrics. The book covers scientometric laws such as Lotka's Law, Zipf's Law, and Bradford's Law. It examines various scientometric indicators including impact factor, h-index, g-index, and citation analysis. The book also explores sources of scientometric data and software for scientometric analysis. Written by Abhay Maurya, the book is intended to be useful for students, researchers, and librarians.

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An Introduction to Scientometrics
Abhay Maurya
About the Book
This book is related to Library and Information Science. This book gives complete
information related to Scientiometrics and Bibliometrics. In this book Author talked
about Introduction, History of Scientrometrics, Bibliometrics and Scientometrics Law,
Bibliometrics and Scientrometrics Indicator, Bibliometrics and Scientrometrics Tools
andScholarlydatabaseusedforanalysispurpose.
This book is useful for Under graduates, Post graduates, M. Phil and Ph.D., Researchers,
AcademiciansandLibrarians.
About the Author
Abhay Maurya is a Junior Research Fellow and doing PhD in
Scientometric from Mizoram University. He Holds MLIS from
Banaras Hindu University, Varansi; BLIS from U.P.R.T.O.
University, Allahabad; MA (Sociology) & BA from V.B.S.P.
University, Jaunpur; O Level and CCC from N.I.L.E.T., New
Delhi and PGDCA from Subharti university. He has qualified
UGC NET- JRF in 2019 and NET in 2017 in Library and
Information Science. His areas of specialization are Bibliometric,
Scientometric, Webometric, Altmetric, Mapping, Ranking of higher education, AI,
Datamining.
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5. Dedicated to:
“I dedicate this book to my father late
Sh. Rajendra Prasad (Maurya)”

6. CONTENTS
List of Tables ix
List of Figures xi
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 1
Chapter 2 HISTORY OF ANALYZING LITERARY INFORMATION 3
2A. Informetrics 3
2B. Bibliometrics 3
2C. Scientometrics 5
2D. Webometrics 6
2E. Cybermetrics 6
Chapter 3 SCIENTOMETRIC LAWS 8
3A. Lotka’s Law 8
3B. Zipf’s Law 14
3C. Bradford’s Law 17
Chapter 4 SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS 22
4A. Impact Factor 23
4B. Science Citation Index 25
4C. Acknowledgment Index 29
4D. h-index 29
4E. g-index 33
4F. m-index 35
4G. i-index 36
4H. Citation Analysis 36
4I. Journal Rankings 39
4J. Author Level Metrics 42
4K. Article-Level Metrics 45
4L. CiteScore 46

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4M. Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 48
4N. PageRank 49
4O. Eigenfactor 53
4P. Co-citation 56
Chapter 5 SCIENTOMETRIC STUDIES: SOURCES OF DATA 58
5A. Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) 59
5B. CiteSeerX 61
5C.Ei Compandex 70
5D. Education Research Information Center (ERIC) 82
5E. Google Scholar 87
5F. Inspec 93
5G. Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA) 102
5H. MathSciNet 107
5I. PubMed 115
5J. Scopus 118
5K. Web of Science (WoS) 131
Chapter 6 SOFTWARE FOR SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS 141
6A. BibExcel 141
6B. Biblio Tool & Biblio Map 150
6C. Cite Space 160
6D. HistCite 170
6E. VOSViewer 179
6F. Bibliometrix 188
Chapter 7 FAQ ON BIBLIOMETRICS 202
Bibliography 207
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