Brookes, B. C.: Biblio-, Sciento-, Infor-metrics??? What are we talking about?. In: Egghe, L. & Rousseau, R. (Hrsg.):
nformetrics 89/90 : selection of papers submitted for the second International Conference on Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, and Informetrics, London, Ontario, Canada, 5-7 July 1989. Elsevier, 1990
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This paper traces the origins of informatics, scientometrics and informetrics in the USSR and Hungary; the origins of information science, information studies and bibliometrics in Britain and the USA, and their interactions with library studies. Finaly, three different contexts are suggested in which the three '-metrics' have distinctive and important rules.