Introduction to Bibliometrics

What is Bibliometrics?

Outline

Properties of Academic Literature

Growth

Zipf-Yule-Pareto Law

Random processes and Zipfian behavior

Lotka’s Law

Lotka’s Law in Action

Bradford’s Law of Scattering

Fragmentation

Fragmentation

Obsolescence

ISI Impact Factor

Half Life Decay
 in Action

Expected Citation Rates

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Linkage

Non-trivial to unify citations

Computational Analysis of Links

Calculating citation types

Using link text for classification

Ranking related papers in retrieval

Citation Analysis

Citation Analysis

Prominence

Centrality

Node Degree Centrality

Distance Centrality

Betweenness Centrality

References (besides readings)

Things to think about