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Course: Scientometrics and Informetrics Level: Postgraduate Time: Currently not offered |
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| Syllabus Past Exams Syllabus: Module 1: Introduction and Evolution Unit 01: Introduction and need of metric studies in scholarly communication Unit 02-03: Evolution of metric studies (From Librametrics to Altmetrics) Unit 04: Open Content Metrics Module 2: Scientific Collaboration Unit 05: Concept, need and types of scientific collaboration Unit 06: Measurement of scientific collaboration Module 3: Bibliometric Laws Unit 07: Law of scattering (Bradford’s law) Unit 08: Zipf’s law, Lotka’s law Unit 09: Generalised bibliometrics distributions and Fitting of Informetrics models: Bradford’s curve, Leimkuhler’s distribution, Unit 10: 80-20 rules, Price’s law relating to scientific productivity Unit 11: Aspects of concentration measures; Circulation Statistics Module 4: Citation Analysis Unit 12: Data Citation Unit 13: Citation indexing, Impact Factor, H and G Indexes Unit 14: Standard Citation Indicators(MOCR, FECR and MECR) Unit 15: Relative citation Indicators(NMCR and RCR); bibliographic coupling and co-citation analysis Module 5: Growth and obsolescence of literature Unit 16: Various growth models; the half-life analogy Unit 17: Determinations of aging factor and half-life: real vs apparent; synchronous vs diachronous Unit 18-19: Measurement of growth and obsolescence (Practice) Module 6: Mapping and Science Indicators Unit 20: Mapping of science Unit 21: Science indicators Unit 22: Measurements of science indicator, mapping and visualization (Practice) Unit 23: Metric Based Evaluations Module 7: Altmetric studies Unit 24: Introduction need and real world scenario Unit 25: Altmetrics tools and indicators Unit 26: Altmetrics (Practice) Module 8: Ranking Unit 27: Need, Objective and frameworks e.g., NIRF Module 9: Citation Databases and Infographics Unit 28-29: Scopus, Web of Knowledge, PubMed, Medline, Google Scholar Unit 30: Infographicsv Module 10: Tools for metric studies Unit 31-33: Tools for bibliometric and scientometric studies (e.g. R) Reference Texts: 1. Almind, T C & Ingwersen, P. (1997) Informetric analysis of World Wide Web: Methodological approaches to webometrics. Journal of Documentation, 53(4).412-420. 2. Andres, Ana. (2009). Measuring academic research: How to undertake Bibliometric Study. Oxford. 3. De Bellis, N. (2009). Bibliometrics and citation analysis: From the Science Citation Index to Cybermetrics. Scarecrow press. 4. Egghe, L & Rousseau, R.. (1990). Introduction to Informetrics: Quantitative meth ods in library, documentation and information science. Elsevier Science. 5. Egghe, L. (2006). Theory and practice of the g-index. Scientometrics . 69(1): 131- 152 6. Egghe, L. (2010). The Hirch Index and related impact measures. ARIST, Vol.44, 65-114. 7. Hertzel, Dorothy H. (2003). Bibliometric history. In Encyclopeadia of Library & Information science. Ed.2. Vol. 1. Miriam A. Drake. Ed. New York: Marcel Dekker Inc. 8. Lancaster, F W. (1991). Biblometric methods in assessing productivity and impact of research. SRELS 9. Moed, H F. (2000). Citation Analysis in research evaluation. Springer. 10. Vinkler, P. (2010). The evaluation of research by scientometric indicators. Oxford: Chandos Publishing. 11. White, Howard D & Mc Cain, Katherine (1989). Bibliometrics. In William, Martha E. Ed. ARIST, Vol. 24. Amsterdam: Elsevier science pub. 12. Wilson, C S. (1999) Informetrics. In Williams, M E. Ed., ARIST, Vol.34. Medford: Information Today. Top of the page Past Exams | ||
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