Bibliogram

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A bibliogram is a graphic or tabular arrangement of objects that are displayed as a ranking according to the number of their occurrences in connection with an initial term. The term "bibliogram" was proposed in 2005 by Howard D. White for various such probability distributions and diagrams that are often found in informetrics , scientometrics and bibliometrics . Mostly these are power law distributions or other scale laws such as Zipf's law or Bradford's law . While the statistical distribution function is extensively researched scientifically, in practice the specific rankings are often of interest.

Analogous to Bibliogrammen suggests White, determined by informal or bibliometric analyzes orders of terms that often occur in conjunction with another source term, as a mind map to describe ( "associagram"). Associograms can help , for example, with finding topics and words or with creating a thesaurus .

Examples

An example of a bibliogram in bibliometrics is a list of the co-authors of an author with the number of their joint scientific publications or the authors of a specialist journal with the number of articles published therein.

A popular example of a bibliogram is recommendation lists for books ("Authors who bought this book ...") from Amazon .

An example of the use of associograms is Google Sets, but these are not bibliograms in the strict sense.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. (see also http://questsin.blogspot.com/2005/06/in-search-for-answers-another.html ( Memento from March 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) )

literature

  • Howard D. White: On Extending Informetrics: An Opinion Paper . In: Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics. Stockholm, 2005 pp. 442-449