摘要
信息计量领域的范围和其重要性被定义并联系于早些时候的书目计量和科技计量领域,信息计量者所研究得到的现象是相同的。在这篇论文中对以前在这个领域作出重大贡献的人作了描述并着重联系到他们的贡献。
The scope and significance of the field of informetrics is defined and related to the earlier fields of bibliometrics and scientometrics. The phenomea studied by informtricians are identified. The major contributors to the field in the past are described and current emphases are related to the contributions in this Special Issue.
