Scientometrics Tools and Techniques: An Overview

T Brindha; N Murugesapandian

T Brindha Ph.D., Research Scholar (Part-Time), Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore
N Murugesapandian Librarian &Head (Rtd), Department of Library and Information Science, Ganesar College of Arts and Science, Melasivapuri, Pudhukottai, Tamil Nadu

Keywords: scientometrics, Citation Mapping, For Visualization, bibliographic data, co-citation, scientific literature

Abstract

Journals play an important role in scholarly communication. Periodicals are sensitive indicators of the emerging new ideas in any discipline. They reveal the existing problems requiring solution, research pattern to solve these problem, the practices fixed to various areas etc. “A scientific paper or text not only reveals the world building strategy of its authors, but also the nature and force of the building blocks derived from the domain of science from which it draws and to which it contributes” [GUPTA & KUMAR, 2001].The application of statistics to any scientific communication channels is called scientometrics. Scientometrics is a branch of science. Scientometricians explain about input and outputs resource in terms of organizational structure. They develop benchmarks to evaluate the quality of information resources and packages of information for decision making in science. It provides a key opportunity to the researcher to publish their articles with new strategies, innovations, new methods and new ideas.