49. évfolyam, 2003. 1. szám

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WORMEL, Irene: Infometrics and the use of bibliographic data in strategic planning

(Transl.: Mohor Jenő)

The study calls attention to the us of the methods of cognitive analysis and synthesis while searching large bibliographic databases. Infometrics is presented as an emerging field of information science. She illustrates how bibliometric methods combined with statistics, advanced information retrieval, data and text mining can be applied in the analysis of e.g. subject fields, research trends, the assessment of portals and electronic libraries. Through some research examples she shows the achievements reached by these approaches, e.g. the analysis of the impact of international scientific journals, or the subject analysis of national/international well-being research. She emphasizes the necessity that library and information professionals be the consolidators of information, i.e. persons who transform the gathered information bits to knowledge that can be used by the management of their organisation/institution/workplace in making strategic decisions.

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