A bibliometric analysis of the Tanzania journal of agricultural science (1998-2017)
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Date
2019
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Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Abstract
The term bibliometrics was first coined by Pritchard in 1969. From there on different people
defined and interpreted bibliometrics in various ways. For instance, British Standards Institution,
(1976) define bibliometrics as the use of mathematical and statistical methods to study
documents and patterns of publication. One year later Hawkins (1977) interpreted bibliometrics
to mean the “quantitative analysis of the bibliographic features of a body of literature”.
Historically, the term “librametry” was firstly used as coined by S.R. Ranganathan to refer
quantitative study of librarianship. Bibliometrics is analogous to Ranganathan’s librametrics and
the Russian concept scientometrics (Thanuskodi, 2010).
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Agricultural science, Tanzania journal, Bibliometric analysis, Librametry