Letter to the Editor: On the conceptualisation and theorisation of the impact caused by publications

Lutz Bornmann ()

Scientometrics, 2015, vol. 103, issue 3, No 18, 1145-1148

Abstract: Abstract Haustein et al. (Theories of informetrics: a Festschrift in honor of Blaise Cronin, in press) have linked up with a long tradition in scientometrics in publishing an attempt at a conceptual-theoretical reflection of the “impact” concept in bibliometrics and altmetrics. The very interesting publication by Haustein et al. (Theories of informetrics: a Festschrift in honor of Blaise Cronin, in press) is taken as an opportunity in this letter to the editor, in the first part to discuss the classification of article-level metrics, and in the second the theoretical reflection of “impact”.

Keywords: Bibliometrics; Altmetrics; Theory of citing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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