Hi Joe:

On Tue, 25 May 2010, Joe Blaylock wrote:
> I did choose the more generic term specifically.  I think that it's
> pretty easy to imagine that in the future we'll be documenting many
> different ways for users to gather metadata beyond simply
> citation-related information.

Yes, and having all bibliometrics on a single help page risks making it
too long and too encompassing, which was my concern.  Imagine sections
on testing Zipf's law, extracting keyword frequencies and other content
analysis, on potential visualisation tools...  Some bibliometrics can go
far beyond the regular user's (physicist's) interests, hence I think the
most popular help topics like citation analysis may better live on their
dedicated help pages.

This does not prevent us from having a central bibliometrics entry page
later, linking to all the dedicated user-oriented metric help pages and
various librarian-oriented metric pages and ``howto export data for my
university for further local bibliometrics analysis by third party
tools'' that we'd need to write up.

Best regards
-- 
Tibor Simko

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