A Critical View on Bibliometrics

Bibliometrics is both a research area determining the distribution of the information produced quantitatively by various factors and a research method. The aim of this study is to examine bibliometrics as a scientific discipline with a critical approach. In this context, the hypothesis of our study is as follows; “In assessing the productivity of research and researcher, bibliometric studies give more weight to quantitative aspects of the productivity. However, the productivity of research and researcher should not be determined only by quantitative aspects”.In this study, our criticisms about bibliometricsand bibliometric studies are listed as follows:---Terminologicalproblems about bibliometrics---Problems related to the importance given to quantity---Technical and interpretativeproblems arising fromauthors, and---Technical problems related to databases involving the related literature.This study has demonstrated that the only quantitative aspects are not sufficient to assess the productivity of research and researcher