Scientometrics in Organizations as a New Role for Library and Information Science Professionals

Abstract

Scientometrics is term which has attracted attentions from governments and organizations. Experts dealing with scintometrics and related investigations seek for impacts of working actors of science society on together from personal to governmental levels. Investigations of this kind provide scientific society with knowledge of prolific authors, organizations and countries. Integrating an organizational view with scientometrics studies will help us to reach in fruitful knowledge on science road map of organizations which finally, will enable better knowledge management. This article aimed to nurture this idea articulating concept of scientometrics in an organizational context and highlighting role of information science professionals in this process.

Keywords

• scientometrics
• organizations
• library and information science professionals
• knowledge map