Using bibliographic records from the Social Science Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Index, this paper tries to give a complete view of the evolution of scientometrics based on literature published during 1980-2009. Findings revealed that out of 691 articles in the field of scientometrics, a total of 183 articles (26.48%) were written during 1980-2009 by top ten authors. Some of these articles were at the result of collaborative ones and some of them are non-collaborative ones. Geographical analysis indicated that the field has evolved considerably in different regions of the world. Hungarian Academy of Science with 40 records (5.71%) was the most productive institution in the field of scientometrics. Furthermore, chronological analysis uncovered that the scientific production in the field of scientometrics show a slow increase from 1980 to 2009. Overwhelming majority of documents were in English; and international journal Scientometrics were the most prolific journal in the field. It has been also declared that 67.87% of the literature was published in the area of Information Science and Library Science.
کلید واژگان :scientometrics, scientific production, web of science
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