Introduction to the Special Issue

Librametry, Bibliometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics are closely related topics. Its main scope is to evaluate and measure various characteristics of libraries (including the library services), scientific publications and science in general. In practice, much of the research work that falls under these headings mostly centered on various types of citation analysis looking at how scholars cite one another in publications. Whether we call the research area ( application of quantitative methods to library and information science) as librametry or bibliometrics or scientometrics or informetrics.