BIBLIOMETRICS ANALYSIS TOOL – A REVIEW (original) (raw)

Bibliometrics has become an increasingly necessary tool for studying and analyzing scientific activity. It is a field that uses quantitative means to evaluate academic productivity. This quantitative analysis of scientific literature is rapidly changing with the creation of new evaluation tools, parameters, and normative data and researcher must be able to extract, interpret and represent bibliometric data in different ways depending on the user. In this article, we review and discuss the process of creating a bibliometric data management and consultation tool, called Bibliometrics, whose aim to provide the needs of the different users. We review the paper by describing the reasons that have led us to create this tool, the information sources from which the data are taken (both bibliographic and bibliometric), and the bibliometric indicators used to present the information. This review indicates that bibliometrics offers a useful approach for measuring some aspects of research output and impact