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Permalink Reply by Amit Kumar on August 30, 2012 at 19:01

Bibliometrics is a set of methods to quantitatively analyze scientific and technological literature.[1] Citation analysis and content analysis are commonly used bibliometric methods. While bibliometric methods are most often used in the field of library and information science, bibliometrics have wide applications in other areas. Historically bibliometric methods have been used to trace relationships amongst academic journal citations. Citation analysis, which involves examining an item's referring documents, is used in searching for materials and analyzing their merit

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