UIKS019 Bibliometrics and Informetrics
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaSummer 2019
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Anna Novotná, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Anna Novotná, Ph.D.
Institute of Computer Science – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- UIKS021 Project Management || UIKS031 Project Management
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Information and Library Studies (programme FPF, N7201 InSK)
- Course objectives
- In the course students should master the basic knowledge from the bibliometric laws, bibliometric methods, indicators of evaluation of scientific publications and methodology of the bibliometric analysis of science and disciplines of individual states. The development of this discipline of information science as well as ties to informetrics and scientometrics are explained because of frequent confusion.
- Syllabus
- Thematic Blocks:
Module 1 Bibliometrics laws and methods
Bradford´s law
Zipf´s law
Lotka´s law
Price law
Garfield law
Sengupta´s law
Module 2 Citation Index
Science Citation Index (SCI)
Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A and HCI)
Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Web of Knowledge
Module 3 Application of Bibliometrics
Citation analysis
Co-Citation analysis
Maps of Science
Informetrics, scientometrics, librametrics
Module 4 Citation theory
Research on information exchange of knowledge
Citation behavior
Ethics quoting
Codification of the rules of citation
Codification of the principles of cite
- Thematic Blocks:
- Literature
- required literature
- SOUČEK, Martin. Informační věda. Praha. URL info
- BAWDEN, David, ROBINSON, Lyn. Úvod do informační vědy. Doubravník: Flow, 2017. ISBN 978-80-88123-10-1. info
- recommended literature
- TATTERSALL, Andy (ed.). Altmetrics: a practical guide for librarians, reserchers and academics. London: Facet Publishing, 2016. ISBN 9781783300105. info
- GINGRAS, Yves. Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation: Uses and Abuses. 2016. ISBN 978262035125. info
- CRONIN, Blaise and Cassidy R. SUGIMOTO, eds. Beyond Bibliometrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact. 2014. ISBN 978-0-262-02679-6. info
- not specified
- GOLAN, Amos. Foundations of Info-Metrics: Modeling and Inference with Imperfect Information. Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN 9780199349531. info
- HOLMBERG, Kim. Altmetrics for information professionals: past, present and future. Amsterdam: Chandos Publishing, 2016. ISBN 9780081002773. info
- BALL, Rafael. Bibliometrie: Einfach ? verständlich ? nachvollziehbar. Berlin: De Gruyter Saur, 2014. ISBN 9783110293753. info
- Teaching methods
- Interactive lecture
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Lecture with a video analysis - Assessment methods
- Grade
Test
Written exam
Exam - Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Teacher's information
- Participation in lectures, study of basic literature, semester thesis and passing written or oral exams.
Activity Difficulty [h] Příprava na zkoušku 20 Semestrální práce 10 Účast na výuce 26 Summary 56
- Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2019, recent)
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