What is "scientometrics"

n. (context sciences English) The scientific measurement of the work of scientists, especially by way of analysing their publications and the citations within them

Scientometrics is the study of measuring and analysing science, technology and innovation. Major research issues include the measurement of impact, reference sets of articles to investigate the impact of journals and institutes, understanding of scientific citations, mapping scientific fields and the production of indicators for use in policy and management contexts. In practice there is a significant overlap between scientometrics and other scientific fields such as bibliometrics, information systems, information science and science of science policy.

Scientometrics is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of scientometrics. The journal publishes original studies, short communications, preliminary reports, review papers, letters to the editor and book reviews on scientometrics. It is published by Akadémiai Kiadó (not an "academy" in the sense of learned society, but an editing house) and Springer Science+Business Media and was established in 1978. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 2.274.