The Bibliometric Study On The Derek De Solla Price Awardees

The aim of this paper was to present a quantitative study on25Price Medalists and their scientific outputs. Bibiometrical method was conducted to provide a description of their social age, region and institution distribution. Other methodologies such as citation analysis, word frequency analysis and social network analysis were employed to discover characteristics of the awardees'h-index, citations and scientific collaboration network. Knowledge map based on keyword co-occurence and co-citations showed research fronts and important fields of scientomtrics. The main findings and results could be concluded as follows:America and some European countries such as Hungary, Belgium and Netherlands contributed a lot to Scientometrics community and there were several famous research centers in the field of quantitative studies of science. It was highlighted that diverse knowledge structure and interdiscipline backgrounds played a constructive role on these awardees'remarkable achievements. Scientometrics were undergoing a relative stable and mature stage in the past decade. The forecast, saying that with an h-index no less than10might be a request to the possible candidate for Price Medal was confirmed by the data and case of this study. Winning the prize benefited individual's citations while collaboration networks had a positive significance correlation with scientists'productivity and academic influence. The classic and key subjects of Scientometrics were science about science, indicators of evaluation, citation analysis and structure of science, and it was noted that knowledge exchange and diffusion between these sub-domains could help to generate new growing point of Scientometrics.