The Literature of Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, and Informetrics

Human behavior and the principle of least effort

Zipf, G. K. (1949) · Max Planck Digital Library · Cited by 6,598 · see citing works

Statistical bibliography or bibliometrics

Pritchard, A. E. (1969) · Journal of Documentation · Cited by 3,301 · see citing works

Theory of the Firm

Jackson, E. L., Cohen, K. J., & Cyert, R. M. (1966) · Southern Economic Journal · doi:10.2307/1054885 · Cited by 2,310 · see citing works

The frequency distribution of scientific productivity

Lotka, A. J. (1926) · Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences · Cited by 1,999 · see citing works

Toward a definition of “bibliometrics”

Broadus, R. N. (1987) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/bf02016680 · Cited by 1,762 · see citing works

An introduction to informetrics

Tague‐Sutcliffe, J. (1992) · Information Processing & Management · doi:10.1016/0306-4573(92)90087-g · Cited by 763 · see citing works

"Sources of information on specific subjects" by S.C. Bradford

Brookes, B. C. (1985) · Journal of Information Science · doi:10.1177/016555158501000406 · Cited by 717 · see citing works

Informetric analyses on the world wide web: methodological approaches to ‘webometrics’

Almind, T. C., & Ingwersen, P. (1997) · Journal of Documentation · doi:10.1108/eum0000000007205 · Cited by 577 · see citing works

Bibliometrics, Citation Analysis and Co-Citation Analysis: A Review of Literature I

Osareh, F. (1996) · Libri · doi:10.1515/libr.1996.46.3.149 · Cited by 514 · see citing works

Introduction to Informetrics: Quantitative Methods in Library, Documentation and Information Science

Egghe, L., & Rousseau, R. (1990) · E-LIS Repository (University of Naples Federico II) · Cited by 386 · see citing works

Scientometrics: State-of-the-art

van Raan, A. F. J. (1997) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/bf02461131 · Cited by 243 · see citing works

Empirical Hyperbolic Distributions (Bradford‐Zipf‐Mandelbrot) for Bibliometric Description and Prediction

Fairthorne, R. A. (1969) · Journal of Documentation · doi:10.1108/eb026481 · Cited by 237 · see citing works

Bibliometrics, Informetrics, Scientometrics and Librametrics: An Overview

Sengupta, I. N. (1992) · Libri · doi:10.1515/libr.1992.42.2.75 · Cited by 235 · see citing works

Bibliometrics: Its Theoretical Foundations, Methods and Applications

Lawani, S. M. (1981) · Libri · doi:10.1515/libr.1981.31.1.294 · Cited by 232 · see citing works

Statistical Bibliography in Relation to the Growth of Modern Civilization.

Hall, H., & Hulme, E. W. (1923) · Economica · doi:10.2307/2548151 · Cited by 159 · see citing works

History of Information Science

Buckland, M. K., & Liu, Z. (1995) · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · Cited by 117 · see citing works

Little scientometrics, big scientometrics ... and beyond?

Glänzel, W., & Schoepflin, U. (1994) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/bf02018107 · Cited by 110 · see citing works

Multiple authors, multiple problems: bibliometrics and the study of scholarly collaboration: a literature review

Harsanyi, M. A. (1993) · Library & Information Science Research · Cited by 106 · see citing works

Traité de documentation : le livre sur le livre, théorie et pratique

Otlet, P. (1934) · Les conférences du Collège de France · Cited by 101 · see citing works

Origins of bibliometrics, citation indexing, and citation analysis: The neglected legal literature

Shapiro, F. R. (1992) · Journal of the American Society for Information Science · doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199206)43:5 · Cited by 84 · see citing works

Early approaches to bibliometrics

Broadus, R. N. (1987) · Journal of the American Society for Information Science · doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(198703)38:2 · Cited by 82 · see citing works

Théorie et pratique

Habermas, J., & Raulet, G. (2006) · Payot eBooks · Cited by 80 · see citing works

Unconventional uses of on‐line information retrieval systems: On‐line bibliometric studies

Hawkins, D. T. (1977) · Journal of the American Society for Information Science · doi:10.1002/asi.4630280103 · Cited by 76 · see citing works

Annual review of information science and technology, vol. 22

Williams, M. E. (1987) · Elsevier eBooks · Cited by 70 · see citing works

Chemical Abstracts Service Chemical Registry System: History, scope, and impacts

Weisgerber, D. W. (1997) · Journal of the American Society for Information Science · doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199704)48:4 · Cited by 59 · see citing works

Biblio-, sciento-, infor-metrics?? what are we talking about ?

Brookes, B. C. (1990) · Document Server@UHasselt (UHasselt) · Cited by 59 · see citing works

In Search of a Name: Information Science and its Conceptual Antecedents

Schrader, A. M. (2026) · ERA: Education and Research Archive (University of Alberta) · doi:10.7939/85112 · Cited by 53 · see citing works

Frequency distributions of scientific performance a bibliography of Lotka's law and related phenomena

Vlachý, J. (1978) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/bf02016844 · Cited by 49 · see citing works

Information transfer and the adoption of agricultural innovations

Longo, R. M. J. (1990) · Journal of the American Society for Information Science · doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199001)41:1 · Cited by 38 · see citing works

A bradford distribution for bibliometrics

Peritz, B. C. (1990) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/bf02020148 · Cited by 27 · see citing works

Citation Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Hérubel, J. V. M. (1994) · Collection Management · doi:10.1300/j105v18n03_06 · Cited by 24 · see citing works

ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE CLASSICAL BIBLIOMETRIC LAWS

Egghe, L. (1988) · Journal of Documentation · doi:10.1108/eb026819 · Cited by 22 · see citing works

Citation content analysis of a botany journal

MacRoberts, M. H., & MacRoberts, B. R. (1997) · Journal of the American Society for Information Science · doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199703)48:3 · Cited by 22 · see citing works

The Bradford Distribution: A Review of the Literature, 1934-1987.

Lockett, M. W. (1989) · Library & Information Science Research · Cited by 21 · see citing works

Bibliografia Estatística e Bibliometria: Uma Reivindicação de Prioridades

da Fonseca, E. N. (1973) · Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) · doi:10.18225/ci.inf.v2i1.19 · Cited by 17 · see citing works

DOCUMENTATION NOTE

Wittig, G. R. (1978) · Journal of Documentation · doi:10.1108/eb026662 · Cited by 17 · see citing works

Bibliometrics: an annotated bibliography, 1970-1990

(1994) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.31-2448 · Cited by 14 · see citing works

Science literature—how faulty a mirror of science?

Griffith, B. C. (1979) · Aslib Journal of Information Management · doi:10.1108/eb050690 · Cited by 14 · see citing works

Quantitative studies of science a current bibliography

Schubert, A. P. (1983) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/bf02134326 · Cited by 14 · see citing works

Use of a virtual information system for bibliometric analysis

Burton, H. D. (1988) · Information Processing & Management · doi:10.1016/0306-4573(88)90076-3 · Cited by 13 · see citing works

The librarian's thesaurus

Soper, M. E., Osborne, L. N., & Zweizig, D. L. (1990) · Virtual Defense Library (Ministerio de Defensa) · Cited by 12 · see citing works

Informetrics 89/90 : selection of papers submitted for the second International Conference on Bibliometrics, Scientometrics and Informetrics, London, Ontario, Canada, 5-7 July 1989

Egghe, L., & Rousseau, R. (1990) · Elsevier eBooks · Cited by 10 · see citing works

Informetrics 87/88 : select proceedings of the First International Conference on Bibliometrics and Theoretical Aspects of Information Retrieval, Diepenbeek, Belgium, 25-28 August 1987

Egghe, L., & Rousseau, R. (1988) · Cited by 9 · see citing works

On the Careers of Terminologies; the Case of Bibliometrics

Peritz, B. C. (1984) · Libri · doi:10.1515/libr.1984.34.1.233 · Cited by 8 · see citing works

Supplement to a “Bibliography of bibliometrics and citation indexing & analysis” (Trita-lib-2013)

Hjerppe, R. (1982) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/bf02021064 · Cited by 6 · see citing works

Little scientometrics, big scientometrics... and beyond

Peritz, B. C. (1994) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/bf02018115 · Cited by 5 · see citing works

A Current Bibliography

Parker, J. H., & Selig, K. L. (1958) · Bulletin of the Comediantes · doi:10.1353/boc.1958.0010 · Cited by 5 · see citing works

Nobel prizes

Vlachý, J. (1979) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/bf02016314 · Cited by 5 · see citing works

Selected papers presented at the 4th international-conference on bibliometrics, informetrics and scientometrics - in memory of price,derek,john,desolla (1922-1983) september 11-15, 1993, berlin (germany) - preface

Glänzel, W., & Kretschmer, H. (1994) · Scientometrics · Cited by 4 · see citing works

Foreword

Braun, T. (1994) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/bf02018106 · Cited by 4 · see citing works

Scientometrics: A citation based bibliography, 1990

Schubert, A. P. (1996) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/bf02018238 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Scientometrics: A citation based bibliography 1994–1996

Schubert, A. P. (1999) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/bf02457383 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Scientometrics: A citation based bibliography, 1993

Schubert, A. P. (1996) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/bf02017321 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Quantitative studies of science a current bibliography

Schubert, A. P. (1983) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/bf02072858 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Annotated Bibliography of Publications Dealing with Qualitative and Quantitative Indicators of the Quality of Science.

Stowe, R. C. (1986) · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Quantitative studies of science in the eighties indexes to “current bibliographies” 1–17

Schubert, A. P. (1995) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/bf02017646 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Scientometrics: A citation based bibliography, 1992

Schubert, A. P. (1996) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/bf02126650 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Scientometrics: A citation based bibliography, 1991

Schubert, A. P. (1996) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/bf02016910 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Untitled work

Kochan, C. (1992) · doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199208)43:7

Google Scholar to Overshadow Them All? Comparing the Sizes of 12 Academic Search Engines and Bibliographic Databases

Gusenbauer, M. (2019) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/s11192-018-2958-5 · Cited by 687 · see citing works

A descriptive and historical review of bibliometrics with applications to medical sciences

Thompson, D. F., & Walker, C. K. (2015) · Pharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy · doi:10.1002/phar.1586 · Cited by 481 · see citing works

How to conduct a bibliometric content analysis: guidelines and contributions of content co-occurrence or co-word literature reviews

Klarin, A. (2024) · International Journal of Consumer Studies · doi:10.1111/ijcs.13031 · Cited by 292 · see citing works

Evolution and trends in intelligent tutoring systems research: a multidisciplinary and scientometric view

Guo, L., Wang, D., Gu, F., Li, Y., Wang, Y., & Zhou, R. (2021) · Asia Pacific Education Review · doi:10.1007/s12564-021-09697-7 · Cited by 124 · see citing works

Emotions in learning, teaching, and leadership: A bibliometric review of Asian literature (1990–2018)

Karakus, M., Usak, M., & Ersozlu, A. (2021) · Sage Open · doi:10.1177/2158244020988865 · Cited by 27 · see citing works

Bibliometric data and actual development in technology life cycles: flaws in assumptions

Suominen, A., & Seppänen, M. (2014) · Foresight · doi:10.1108/fs-03-2013-0007 · Cited by 22 · see citing works

Bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics. Part 1. Emergence and background

LAZAREV, V. S. (2020) · Science management theory and practice · doi:10.19181/smtp.2020.2.4.6 · Cited by 11 · see citing works

Scientometrics and information retrieval: weak-links revitalized

Mayr, P., & Scharnhorst, A. (2014) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/s11192-014-1484-3 · Cited by 195 · see citing works

Bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics. Part 4. Object

LAZAREV, V. S. (2022) · Science management theory and practice · doi:10.19181/smtp.2022.4.1.10 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

The 17th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics

Daraio, C. C., Moed, H. F., Catalano, G., et al. (2020) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/s11192-020-03768-z · Cited by 10 · see citing works

The 13th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics

Ocholla, D. N., Ingwersen, P., Noyons, E., & Glänzel, W. (2012) · Scientometrics · doi:10.1007/s11192-011-0608-2 · Cited by 8 · see citing works