Ali Sharafi; Ali Shaghaghi; Mohammadreza Pashang
Abstract
The purpose of this study is the content analysis of the books and theses published in informetrics, bibliometrics, scientometrics and webometrics in the world. This study is an applied research. Statistical population consists of 730 English books in the Amazon database and 1069 English theses in the ...
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The purpose of this study is the content analysis of the books and theses published in informetrics, bibliometrics, scientometrics and webometrics in the world. This study is an applied research. Statistical population consists of 730 English books in the Amazon database and 1069 English theses in the Proquest database that were classified in 15-subject categories. Data were collected using checklists and analyzed by Excel. The findings showed that most books in informetrics, bibliometrics, scientometrics and webometrics published around the world are compilations and publication trends are declining and most of their thematic approaches are the analysis of patents, citation analysis, bibliometric and scientific communications. Theses publication trends are also declining and the most of their thematic approaches are scientometric, citation analysis, bibliometric, webometrics, scientific communications and researcher’s performance evaluation; and the least number of thematic approaches of books and theses in the world are informetrics, scientific collaboration, co-citation, co-authorship, information visualization and knowledge, website evaluation and journals’ impact factor. In addition, most researches of informetrics, bibliometrics, scientometrics and webometrics in the world have been done in the fields of computer science, higher education, management, information technology and library and information science and the least have been done in the fields of ethics, history, philosophy, law, women's studies, nanotechnology, psychology, physics, chemistry, religion, math, entrepreneurship, geography, patent analysis, biology, chemistry, ecology and statistics. The results showed that subject of informatics, bibliometrics, scientometrics and webometrics books and theses in the world is based on citation analysis and is of more subject diversity.
