A bibliometrician is a researcher or a specialist in bibliometrics. It is near-synonymous with an informetrician (who studies informetrics), a scientometrician (who studies scientometrics) and a webometrician, who studies webometrics.
Notable bibliometricians Christine L. Borgman Samuel C. Bradford Blaise Cronin Margaret Elizabeth Egan Eugene Garfield (developer of the Science Citation Index and the Impact factor) Jorge E. Hirsch (developer of the h-index) Alfred J. Lotka Vasily Nalimov Derek J. de Solla Price Ronald Rousseau George Kingsley Zipf
See also Institute for Scientific Information International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (an association of professionals in the fields).
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