Yan, Tsai, and Huang (2022)

Yan, Karen; Tsai, Meng-Li and Huang, Tsung-Ren. (2022) Integrating Scientonomy with Scientometrics. In Barseghyan et al. (Eds.) (2022), 67-82.

Title	Integrating Scientonomy with Scientometrics
Resource Type	collection article
Author(s)	Karen Yan, Meng-Li Tsai, Tsung-Ren Huang
Year	2022
Collection	Barseghyan et al. (Eds.) (2022)
Pages	67-82

Abstract

Scientonomy is the field that aims to develop a descriptive theory of the actual process of scientific change (Barseghyan, 2015). Scientometrics is the field that aims to employ statistical methods to investigate the quantitative features of scientific research, especially the impact of scientific articles and the significance of scientific citations (Leydesdorff & Milojević, 2013). In this paper, we aim to illustrate how to methodologically integrate scientonomy with scientometrics to investigate both qualitative and quantitative changes of a scientific community. We will use a case study to achieve our aim. The case study is about a scientific community studying a physiological phenomenon called heart-rate variability (HRV). Moreover, we will argue that this methodological integration outperforms cases in which researchers only employ the resources from one of the two fields.