Scientometric Portrait of Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman, Manzoor Ahmad Khan ...

Some biographical and bio-bibliometric studies of individuals have been carried out
occasionally at the time of retirement or paying homage to an individual after
death. For some noted individuals their contributions are highlighted in the obituary
column of professional journals (Koganurmath, 2003).
Hirsch (2005) for the quantification of scientific output of individual scientific
authors suggested the h-index, also known as the Hirsch Number which is based
on the citations each article (paper) of an author gets. This number has several
advantages over other criteria. H-index has been suggested for use in academic
promotions, tenure, grant funding, and prediction of winning of the Nobel Prize.
Recently individual scientists including the Nobel Laureates are becoming the
focus of scientometric studies rather than gross statistical "macro" data (Schubert
and Glanzel, 1992). Among a number of scientometric studies on Nobel Laureates
few are:
Scientometric portrait of Nobel Lauriat Leland Dr. C.V. Raman (Kademani, Kalyane
& Kademani, 1994), Barbara McClintock: (Kalyane and Kademani, 1997), S.
Chandrasekhar (Gupta, 1983), Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (Kademani, Kalyane &
Jange, 1999), Ahmed Hassan Zewail (Kademani, Kalyane & Kumar, 2001), Harold
W. Kroto (Kademani, Kalyane & Kumar, 2002), Pierre – Gilles de Gennes (Kalyane
& Sen, 1996), Wolfgang Ketterle (Koganuramath, et al., 2003) and H. Hartwell
(Angadi, et al., 2004).
Besides Nobel Laureates there are numerous scientometric studies on other
scientists in various disciplines, the reference is made to some of such studies as:
The research by Kalyane & Kalyane (1993), (Kademani, Kalyane & Balakrishnan
(1994), Kalyane (1995), Prpic (1996), Kalyane & Sen (1996), Hawkins (2001),
Kalyane, Prakasan and Kumar (2001), Swarna, Kalyane and Kumar (2002),
Kademani, et al., (2005), Kademani, et al. (2006), Sangum, Savanur and Sarathi
(2006), Sangam and Savanur (2006), Tiew (2006), van Raan (2006), (Koley & Sen
2006),Anuradha & Urs (2007), Fred Y. Ye (2007), Sagar, Kademani and Kumar
(2007) , Leydesdorff & Meyer (2007), Ocholla & Ocholla (2007), Pouris
(2007)andYazit & Zainab (2007).
Few examples of bibliometric/citation studies from Pakistan are: Kousar &
Mahmood (2010). Naseer & Mahmood (2009), Mahmood & Rehman (2009),Javed
& Shah (2008), Ullah, Butt & Haroon (2008), Ullah (2006), Sharif & Mahmood
(2004), Majid (1995, 2000), Anwar and Saeed (1999), Khan and Samdani (1997)
and Mahmood (1996).
The bibliometricians, scientometricians and information specialists also contributed
a number of books on theory and applications of the discipline. A few examples of
such publications are:
Introduction to informetrics: quantitative methods in library, documentation and
information science (Egghe and Rousseau, 1990), Handbook of quantitative
studies of science & technology (van Raan, 1988), Bibliometric mapping as a
science policy and research management tool (Noyons, 1999), The challenge of
scientometrics: The development, measurement and self-organization of scientific
communications (Leydesdorff, 1995) and Scholarly communication and
bibliometrics (Borgman, ed. 1990).
Among a large number of useful web-sites providing information on different
aspects of bibliometrics few are:
· Applications in Teaching Bibliometrics by Sara von Ungern-Sternberg.
htp://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla61/61-ungs.htm
· Bibliometric Mapping by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS)
at Leiden University in the Netherlands.