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title: "Bibliometrician"
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A bibliometrician is a researcher or a specialist in bibliometrics. It is near-synonymous with an informetrican (who studies informetrics), a scientometrican (who study scientometrics) and a webometrician, who study webometrics.


== Notable bibliometricians ==
Christine L. Borgman
Samuel C. Bradford
Blaise Cronin
Margaret Elizabeth Egan
Eugene Garfield (developer of the Science Citation Index and the Impact factor)
Jorge E. Hirsch (developer of the h-index)
Alfred J. Lotka
Vasily Nalimov
Derek J. de Solla Price
Ronald Rousseau
George Kingsley Zipf


== See also ==
Institute for Scientific Information
International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (an association of professionals in the fields).


== References ==