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Scientometrics is a subfield of informetrics that studies quantitative aspects of scholarly literature.Major research issues include the measurement of the impact of research papers and academic journals, the understanding of scientific citations, and the use of such measurements in policy and management contexts. [1]
Ulugh Beg's meridian arc for precise astronomical measurements (15th c.). The exact sciences or quantitative sciences, sometimes called the exact mathematical sciences, [1] are those sciences "which admit of absolute precision in their results"; especially the mathematical sciences. [2]
Biological fitness is the quantitative measure of individual reproductive success, e.g. the tendency of lineages containing individuals that produce more offspring in a particular environment to persist and thrive in that environment.
Some measure of the undisputed general importance of quantification in the natural sciences can be gleaned from the following comments: "these are mere facts, but they are quantitative facts and the basis of science." [1] It seems to be held as universally true that "the foundation of quantification is measurement." [2]
However, it has been argued that measurement often plays a more important role in quantitative research. [12] For example, Kuhn argued that within quantitative research, the results that are shown can prove to be strange. This is because accepting a theory based on results of quantitative data could prove to be a natural phenomenon.
In 2019, the entire scientific board of the Journal of Infometrics resigned and created a new open access journals, Quantitative Science Studies. The journal was published by Elsevier since 2007 and the members of the board were increasingly critical of the lack of progress in the open sharing of open citation data: "Our field depends on high ...
Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is the science of quantitative characterization and estimation of uncertainties in both computational and real world applications. It tries to determine how likely certain outcomes are if some aspects of the system are not exactly known.
This category is for science fiction studies journals, i.e., academic journals about science fiction. Not to be confused with Category:Science fiction novels . Pages in category "Science fiction and fantasy journals"