TY - CONF AU - Brookes, Bertram Claude A2 - Egghe, Leo A2 - Rousseau, Ronald T1 - Biblio-, Sciento-, Infor-metrics??? What are we talking about? T2 - nformetrics 89/90 : selection of papers submitted for the second International Conference on Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, and Informetrics, London, Ontario, Canada, 5-7 July 1989 PB - Elsevier CY - PY - 1990/ M2 - VL - IS - SP - EP - UR - https://uhdspace.uhasselt.be/dspace/handle/1942/857 M3 - KW - scientometrics KW - bibliometrics KW - informetrics L1 - SN - N1 - Document Server@UHasselt: Biblio-, sciento-, infor-metrics?? what are we talking about ? N1 - AB - 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. ER -