With singular concord. The branch of information science concerned with the application of bibliometrics to the study of the spread of scientific ideas; the bibliometric analysis of science.
Origin
1960s. From scient- + -o- + metric, in early use after Russian naukometrija.
Definition of scientometrics in US English:
scientometrics
nounˌsʌɪəntəˈmɛtrɪks
With singular concord. The branch of information science concerned with the application of bibliometrics to the study of the spread of scientific ideas; the bibliometric analysis of science.
Origin
1960s. From scient- + -o- + metric, in early use after Russian naukometrija.