Journal Title：Scientometrics

Scientometrics aims at publishing original studies, short communications, preliminary reports, review papers, letters to the editor and book reviews on scientometrics. The topics covered are results of research concerned with the quantitative features and characteristics of science. Emphasis is placed on investigations in which the development and mechanism of science are studied by means of (statistical) mathematical methods.

The Journal also provides the reader with important up-to-date information about international meetings and events in scientometrics and related fields. Appropriate bibliographic compilations are published as a separate section. Due to its fully interdisciplinary character, Scientometrics is indispensable to research workers and research administrators throughout the world. It provides valuable assistance to librarians and documentalists in central scientific agencies, ministries, research institutes and laboratories.

Scientometrics includes the Journal of Research Communication Studies. Consequently its aims and scope cover that of the latter, namely, to bring the results of research investigations together in one place, in such a form that they will be of use not only to the investigators themselves but also to the entrepreneurs and research workers who form the object of these studies.

《科学计量学》旨在发表有关科学计量学的原创研究、简短交流、初步报告、评论论文、致编辑的信函和书评。涵盖的主题是与科学的定量特征和特征有关的研究结果。重点是通过（统计）数学方法研究科学的发展和机制的调查。

该期刊还为读者提供有关科学计量学和相关领域的国际会议和活动的重要最新信息。适当的书目汇编作为单独的部分出版。由于其完全跨学科的特点，科学计量学对于全世界的研究工作者和研究管理人员来说是不可或缺的。它为中央科学机构、部委、研究机构和实验室的图书馆员和文献工作者提供了宝贵的帮助。

科学计量学包括研究传播研究杂志。因此，它的目标和范围涵盖了后者的目标和范围，即将研究调查的结果集中在一个地方，以这样一种形式，它们不仅对调查人员自己有用，而且对企业家和研究工作者也有用。形成这些研究的对象。