Bibliometrician

A bibliometrician is a researcher or a specialist in bibliometrics. It is near-synonymous with an informetrican (who studies informetrics), a scientometrican (who study scientometrics) and a webometrician, who study webometrics.

Notable bibliometricians

• Christine L. Borgman
• Samuel C. Bradford
• Blaise Cronin
• Margaret Elizabeth Egan
• Eugene Garfield (developer of the Science Citation Index and the Impact factor)
• Jorge E. Hirsch (developer of the h-index)
• Alfred J. Lotka
• Vasily Nalimov
• Derek J. de Solla Price
• Ronald Rousseau
• George Kingsley Zipf

See also

• Institute for Scientific Information
• International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (an association of professionals in the fields).