Answer all questions.
Question1)
What is sociology of science? Discuss growth of scientific knowledge with examples.
Question2)
What is meant by scale? Explain its different types.
Question3)
Explain Bradford’s Law and discuss its implications in various library and information activities.
Question4)
What do you understand by science indicators? Discuss their types and functions.
Question5)
What are the factors which influence scientific productivity of authors? Explain the problems in the measurement of scientific productivity.
Question6)
Explain Lotka’s Law of Scientific Productivity and its applications.
Question7)
Discuss concept of obsolescence of literature and its patterns. What are the various measures of rating obsolescence?
Question8)
What is cluster analysis? Explain different types of agglomerative clustering methods.
Question9)
Write short notes on the following:
a) Informetrics and its Application
b) Cito-analytical Studies and Products
c) Regression Analysis
d) Properties of Shannon Information