Methodological Evolution about Citation Analysis Research

Zhao danqun

zdq@pku.edu.cn

（Department of Information Management, Peking University, Beijing,100871）

[Abstract] Citation analysis is a special method and plays an important role in Informetrics and Scientometrics.This paper gives a thoughtful discussion on its methodological evolution form the following three aspects: research strategies, analysis indicators and research tools.

[Keywords] Citation Analysis Informetrics Scientometrics

[Classification code] G350