Application of Bibliometrics in Technical University Libraries

By the science of science by scientometrics (1) is meant the application of exact measuring methods in the investigation of scientific systems. In this, measuring (2) is the member connecting observation with mathematics and allowing the formulation of quantitative theories. In the individual scientific systems there developed subjects of research dealing with metric methods - in chemistry stoichiometry, in the biological sciences biometrics, in sociology sociometry. The scientific systems dealing with the registration and evaluation of printed publications play an important part in the success of scientometric works, because the results obtained in the course of development of the sciences have mostly been stored in publications.