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1969 A. Pritchard in Jrnl. Documentation 25 349 The present writer has never found the term statistical bibliography at all satisfactory... M. G. Kendall..suggested that the name of the subject be changed... It is suggested that a better name..is bibliometrics, i.e. the application of mathematics and statistical methods to books and other media of communication. An intensive search of the literature has failed to reveal any previous use of this term and an approach to the OED again failed to find that the term had been used before.

1972 Jrnl. Amer. Soc. Information Sci. 23 313/1 Bibliometrics is quantitative analysis of gross bibliographical units such as books, journal articles, and the like... Brooks..recommends one method of bibliometric analysis for use in ‘reducing the quantitative untidiness of scientific documentation, information systems and library services’.

1978 Nicholas & Ritchie (title) Literature and bibliometrics.

1988 Daily Tel. 5 July 19/6 ‘Bibliometrics’..in plain English seems to be simply the weighing and measuring of the constant avalanche of papers, books, journals and other academic publications.

1969 R. A. Fairthorne in Jrnl. Documentation 25 319 (heading) Empirical hyperbolic distributions..for bibliometric description and prediction.

1972 B. L. Maurstad (title of Ph.D. thesis, Case Western Reserve Univ.) Concerning structural properties in the literature of the art historian—a bibliometric study.

1976 Survey Spring 73 Some works contain indicators computed in the USSR. Most of them could largely be described in terms of bibliometric aspects of library science.

1989 Times 26 Aug. 4/3 The use of ‘bibliometric’ methods to assess academics' performance—by measuring the number of times a person's work is cited by others—has caused much controversy in the United States.