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Timeline of Informetrics

1954: Publication of Structure formelle des texts et communication,
including Mandelbrot’s law (Mandelbrot, 1954).
1955: Eugene Garfield proposes the idea of a citation index (Garfield,
1955).
1956: Bibliographic coupling idea: Fano (1956).
1960: Index of realized research potential: A first type of impact factor
(Raisig, 1960).
1960: R.E. Burton & R.W. Kebler introduce the notion of half-life in
the literature of the information sciences (Burton & Kebler, 1960).
1962 1963: Michael M. Kessler introduces the idea of bibliographic
coupling (Kessler, 1962, 1963).
1963: The first Science Citation Index (Garfield, 1963).
1963: Derek J. de Solla Price publishes Little science, big science (Price,
1963).
1963: Definition of the standard Journal Impact Factor by Garfield &
Sher (1963).
1963: First version of the Frascati Manual, or officially The Proposed
Standard Practice for Surveys of Research and Experimental Development.
1964: William Goffman and colleagues introduce disease epidemiology
concepts to model the spread of knowledge including the dynamics of
scientific discovery (Goffman & Newill, 1964).
1965: “Networks of scientific papers” by Price (1965) the most influ-
ential paper introducing the network idea in citation analysis.
1966: Vassily V. Nalimov proposes the term naukometria 5 scientometrics
(Nalimov & Mul’chenko, 1969).
1966 1968: K.E. Rosengren introduces the idea of comentioning (in
literary reviews), which is conceptually the same as the cocitation idea
(Rosengren, 1966, 1968).
1967: The Leimkuhler function: a continuous description of
Bradford’s law (Leimkuhler, 1967).
1968: Robert Merton popularizes the term Matthew effect (Merton,
1968).
1968: Francis Narin founds Computer Horizons Inc.
1969: Alan Pritchard re-invents the term bibliometrics (Pritchard,
1969).
1969: Equivalence of bibliometric laws (strongly suggested) by Robert
Fairthorne (Fairthorne, 1969).
1972: The Coles disprove the Ortega hypothesis which states that
every scientist contributes to the progress of science. They claim that