Theories of informetrics and scholarly communication : a fastschrift in honor of Blaise Cronin /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Other Authors: Sugimoto, Cassidy R. (Editor), Cronin, Blaise (honouree.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword ; Prologue ; Introduction ; Part I: Critical informetrics ; The Incessant Chattering of Texts ; Informetrics Needs a Foundation in the Theory of Science ; Part II: Citation theories ; Referencing as Cooperation or Competition ; Semiotics and Citations
  • Data Citation as a Bibliometric Oxymoron Part III: Statistical theories ; Type-Token Theory and Bibliometrics ; From a Success Index to a Success Multiplier ; From Matthew to Hirsch: A Success-Breeds-Success Story ; Information's Magic Numbers: The Numerology of Information Science
  • Part IV: Authorship theories Authors as Persons and Authors as Bundles of Words ; The Angle Sum Theory: Exploring the Literature on Acknowledgments in Scholarly Communication ; The Flesh of Science: Somatics and Semiotics ; Part V: Knowledge organization theories
  • Informetric Analyses of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOSs) Information, Meaning, and Intellectual Organization in Networks of Inter-Human Communication ; Modeling the Structure and Dynamics of Science Using Books ; Part VI: Altmetric theories
  • Webometrics and Altmetrics: Home Birth vs. Hospital Birth Scientific Revolution in Scientometrics: The Broadening of Impact from Citation to Societal ; Altmetrics as Traces of the Computerization of the Research Process
  • Interpreting 'Altmetrics': Viewing Acts on Social Media through the Lens of Citation and Social Theories