Assessment of the relevance of journals in research libraries using bibliometrics (a review)

Originally, most bibliometric research is aimed at the improvement of library collection-management methods and at the development of new methods for the selection of documents for a collection. This is also true of the impact factor, which was designed to evaluate journals before their inclusion in the collections of research libraries. Thus, the core of bibliometrics is librarianship. However, in recent years bibliometric studies are mainly...