A Critical Review on the Book Statistics in Scientometrics and Knowledge and Information Science

Shaghaghi, Mahdi

doi:10.30465/crtls.2024.38880.2418

A Critical Review on the Book Statistics in Scientometrics and Knowledge and Information Science

Document Type : Promotional

Author

Mahdi Shaghaghi

Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science and Knowledge Studies, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran,

https://doi.org/10.30465/crtls.2024.38880.2418

Abstract

In this article, I aimed to give a critical position about a book, namely "Statistics in Scientometrics and Knowledge and Information Science" that was published by SAMT Organization using the polemical criticism method. A critical study of the book showed that it has been unsuccessful in achieving its beginning claims about uncomplicated explanation and practical utilization and a typical reader of the book in humanities and behavioral science can't understand some of its basic statistical discussions and it is usable only for statistical instructors and they may able to re-explain its proofs about distributions, propositions, estimations and so on. It should be said that it is not a comprehensive book in statistics because non-parametric tests and some advanced tests such as ANCOVA, MANCOVA, and path analysis have been neglected. Its software instruction section is either a flawed section because of its excessive brief. However, the book’s basic plan is defensible and its authors can develop it by increasing the statistical tests and decreasing peripheral argumentation.

Keywords

Polemical Method

Statistics in Scientometrics

Statistics in Information Science

SPSS

Statistical Tests

Statistical Analysis

Subjects

Information Science and Epistemology

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