User:Bikramaditya Barman
Informatrics:
Informatrics coined by Nacke(1979). There is a two term ‘Infor’ and ‘metrics’. Infor means information and metrics means measurement. It is helping for measuring the quantitative quality of information in any domain.
Area and scope :
Quantitative aspects of library and information science, especially use and user studies.
Quantitative studies related to book usage, acquisition, age distribution of documents etc.
• Circulation studies.
• Citation studies / analyses (impact factors, i-index, h-index and other measures)
• Journal productivity (by coverage, by use, by citation, etc.)
• Author productivity?(frequency, rank, occurrence etc.,)
• Obsolescence, half-life shell and growth studies.
• Quantitative analysis of science (- science indicators, country-wise, language-wise, subject-wise etc.).
• Identifying relations among various disciplines
• Structure of subjects / disciplines • Evaluation of scientific research (by institutions, by individuals, by countries)
Advantages:
Making Science Policy. predicts productivity areas deal with information
Areas:
Bibliometrics Scientometrics webometrics Altametrics ect.