Bibliometric Research: History [ELIS Classic]

Abstract

Hertzel marshals a vast amount of information on the origins and development of one of the core areas of information science research-bibliometrics, or, as it is also known, informetrics. The study of the statistical properties of the domain of recorded information is a large field with an extensive body of research results.-ELIS Classic, from 1987Murray acclaims "The Bibliotheca of Conrad Gesner, a monument of human industry and one of the triumphs of bibliography." [9] Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition

Discrete power law with exponential cutoff and Lotka's law

“…According to Dorothy H. Hertzel (, table 2 p. 559), the first seminal papers in bibliometrics started with statistical studies by Cole and Eales in 1917 and Hulme and Wyndham in 1922. William Hood and Concepción Wilson ( p. 295) point out that the next step, “the discovery of certain regularities, distributions or laws,” was of fundamental importance to the development of the fields of bibliometrics, scientometrics, and informetrics.…”