Exploring Topics in Bibliometric Research Through Citation Networks and Semantic Analysis.

ABSTRACT: This article surveys topic distributions of the academic literature that employs the terms bibliometrics, scientometrics, and informetrics. This exploration allows informing on the adoption of those terms and publication patterns of the authors acknowledging their work to be part of bibliometric research. We retrieved 20,268 articles related to bibliometrics and applied methodologies that exploit various features of the dataset to surface different topic representations. Across them, we observe major trends including discussions on theory, regional publication patterns, databases, and tools. There is a great increase in the application of bibliometrics as science mapping and decision-making tools in management, public health, sustainability, and medical fields. It is also observed that the

SUBMITTER: Mejia C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8498340 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature