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H. Dou CRRM-Université Aix-Marseille III 13397 Marseille cedex 20 (France) 13397 Marseille cedex 20 (France)

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Abstract  

I read the article ofGlänzel andSchoepflin: Little Scientometrics, Big Scientometrics... and Beyond. This paper presents scientometrics in a very pessimistic way, but, in my opinion it rises the following question:in which business are we? Are we in the analysis of the science production? Do we develop new tools to analyse the textual information?And, above all we use our results and for which purposes.It seems to me that if we answer those questions, a large step will be made in the understanding of the whereabout of our business.

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Scientometrics
Language English
Size B5
Year of
Foundation
1978
Volumes
per Year
1
Issues
per Year
12
Founder Akadémiai Kiadó
Founder's
Address
H-1117 Budapest, Hungary 1516 Budapest, PO Box 245.
Publisher Akadémiai Kiadó
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Publisher's
Address
H-1117 Budapest, Hungary 1516 Budapest, PO Box 245.
CH-6330 Cham, Switzerland Gewerbestrasse 11.
Responsible
Publisher
Chief Executive Officer, Akadémiai Kiadó
ISSN 0138-9130 (Print)
ISSN 1588-2861 (Online)