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Bibliometrics as politics: the case of emerging disciplines
Author(s) -
Traynor Michael
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international nursing review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.84
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1466-7657
pISSN - 0020-8132
DOI - 10.1111/j.1466-7657.2010.00874.x
Subject(s) - bibliometrics , biomedicine , normative , discipline , politics , nursing research , publishing , interpretation (philosophy) , nursing literature , sociology , social science , engineering ethics , political science , nursing , library science , medicine , alternative medicine , law , engineering , genetics , pathology , computer science , biology , programming language
TRAYNOR M. (2011) Bibliometrics as politics: the case of emerging disciplines. International Nursing Review 58 , 26–27 Academic nurses are increasingly turning to bibliometrics to assess the state and status of research publication in nursing in countries around the world. Early bibliometric studies were carried out by Cattell as part of a project to advance research in psychology in the early decades of the 20th century. There are some echoes in nursing's moves to increase its standing over the last 40 years. The interpretation of bibliometric studies can reveal embedded values about academic disciplinary activity and normative views of scientific work. Patterns of publishing by nurse academics appear increasingly to resemble those in biomedicine as a whole.