User:Bikramaditya Barman

Informatrics:

Informatrics coined by Nacke(1979). There is a two term ‘Infor’ and ‘metrics’. Infor means information and metrics means measurement. It is helping for measuring the quantitative quality of information in any domain.

Area and scope :

Quantitative aspects of library and information science, especially use and user studies.

Quantitative studies related to book usage, acquisition, age distribution of documents etc.

• Circulation studies.

• Citation studies / analyses (impact factors, i-index, h-index and other measures)

• Journal productivity (by coverage, by use, by citation, etc.)

• Author productivity?(frequency, rank, occurrence etc.,)

• Obsolescence, half-life shell and growth studies.

• Quantitative analysis of science (- science indicators, country-wise, language-wise, subject-wise etc.).

• Identifying relations among various disciplines

• Structure of subjects / disciplines • Evaluation of scientific research (by institutions, by individuals, by countries)

Advantages:

        Making Science Policy.
        predicts productivity areas deal with information

Areas:

     Bibliometrics
     Scientometrics
     webometrics
     Altametrics ect.