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experimentally by bibliographers such  as  G.  V.  Gedrimovich,  L.  V. 

Zilbermintz, V. A. Minkina and D. Y. Teplova.

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In the 1990s, works by G. F. Gordukalova,

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 M. G. Kalinina and T. I. 

Rutkovskaya,

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 A. V. Nesterova

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 and S. A. Rozhkova

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 appeared. Between 

2000 and 2006, works by L. M. Hochberg and G. S. Sagiyeva,

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 L. N. 

Gusev,

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 O. M. Zusman,

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  E.  V.  Karikova,

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 A. N. Kobelev,

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 V. A. 

Markusova,

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 O. V. Penkova,

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 N. S. Pedkina,

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 E. D. Sverdlov

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 and Y. D. 

Soboleva

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 were published in Russia, as well as translated articles by R. V. 

Wagner-Döbler,

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 V. Glyantsel,

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 M. Tilvol,

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 etc. I. V. Marshakova-

Shaikevich’s many works serve as a kind of “locomotive” for the 

development of Russian bibliometrics in recent decades.

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Thus, discussion of bibliometrics as a complex field is, perhaps, 

possible no earlier than the first half of the 1990s. Currently, bibliometric 

methods, despite being (as described by Sokolov) “non-bibliographic 

genetics,”

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 feature prominently in bibliographic structures,

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 and the article 

The Scattering of Information Law took a prominent place in the recently 

published Library Encyclopaedia.

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Bibliometrics is defined today as:  

                                                 

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 Voverene 1985, p. 1-5; Gedrimovich 1968, p. 12-17; Gedrimovich, Zilbermints 1972, p. 

29-35; Gedrimovich, Minkina 1976; Documentary 1983; Minkina 1979, p. 11-17; Teplov 

1967, p. 5-8. 

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 Gordukalova 1990. 

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 Bibliographic Index 1990. 

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 Nesterov 1990. 

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 Rozhkov 1991. 

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Hochberg, Sagiyeva 2007, p. 44-53. 

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 Guseva 2006, p. 53-57. 

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Zusman 2000. 

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Karikova 2001. 

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 Kobelev 2001, p. 119-130. 

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Markusova 2005. 

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 Penkova 2002. 

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 Redkina 2003, p. 76-86. 

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Sverdlov 2006, p. 1073-1085. 

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 Sostojanie 2003. 

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 Wagner-Döbler 2004, p. 48-54. 

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 Gliantsel 2004, p. 43-47. 

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 Tilvol 2004, p. 67-76. 

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 Marshakova-Shaikevich 1988a; Marshakova-Shaikevich 1998b, p. 43-49; Marshakova-

Shaikevich 1995; Marshakova-Shaikevich 2001, p. 1114-1117; Marshakova-Shaikevich 

2002, p. 314-345; Marshakova-Shaikevich 2008. 

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 Sokolov 2008, p. 19. 

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 Vokhrysheva 2004, p. 166-167. 

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 Grikhanov et al. 2007, p. 847-848. 

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“a scientific discipline concerned with the study of documents on the basis 

of quantitative analysis of primary and secondary sources of information 

with the help of formal methods in order to obtain data on the 

effectiveness, dynamics, structure and laws of development of the studied 

areas.”

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In other words, with the help of bibliometric methods, the intensity 

and nature of research work can be determined through the number, 

“scattering” and concentration of publications. This can help identify the 

most productive authors, potential “white spots” (gaps in the body of 

existing research) and others factors.

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In 1999, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics in Montreal initiated a 

fundamental international review of policy within the sphere of information 

needs and use of statistical data in the scientific and technical field. In the 

review, it was noted that printed works are key indicators of knowledge 

release. The parameters chosen for measurement were the publications 

themselves and links to them. Thus, bibliometric indicators were formalised 

as quantitative indicators of the development of a particular branch of 

science.

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It is important to emphasise that a bibliometric approach to the study 

of science generally uses secondary information on the publications 

contained in various databases

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 (bibliographic data of publications 

contained in the document flows and arrays). While content analysis 

methodologies can be used to characterize the meaningful development of 

the phenomenon under investigation by sampling key words directly from 

the texts, the bibliometric approach is limited mainly to the study of 

bibliographic descriptions. Results from document arrays on the subject of 

study obtained through both methods can be matched (completely or 

partially) depending on how well the document titles reflect their content, as 

expressed by the keywords. 

The subject of bibliometrics can be considered not only as the study 

of the structure of knowledge and thematic distribution in documentary 

flows, but also in terms of that other mass phenomenon dealt with in 

bibliographies: the citation of academic publications, on the basis of which 

bibliographic references are created, revealing trends amongst readers, 

common streams of bibliographic queries, the nucleation of classical works, 

etc.

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Fokeev 2008a, p. 49. 

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Fokeev 2008b, p. 11. 

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 Markusova 2005, p. 6. 

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Marshakova-Shaikevich 2002, p. 315. 

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 Sokolov 2008, p. 19. 

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