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The study presents the state of bibliographical research in the discipline of Hebrew printing during a 30-year period, ranging from the latter quarter of the twentieth century until the beginning of the third millennium (1976–2006). Through bibliographical parameters it characterizes the publications dealing with Hebrew printing, examines whether the published material exhibits laws and systematic regularities that are consistent with Bibliometrics, and describes directions in which the field has developed.
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A distinction must be made between growth in knowledge and growth in literature or number of publications. Growth in knowledge is a rather abstract concept, and in bibliometrics growth in the number of publications is sometimes used as an index or operative definition of growth in knowledge.
Tague, Jean, et al., op. cit. p. 143.
Tague, Jean, et al., op. cit. p. 128.
Bensman, Stephen J. op. cit. p. 280. Concerning Lotka's law and its use in researches, see: Askew (2008).
Askew, Consuella Antoinette. “An Examination of Lotka's Law”. op.cit. p. 25, Table 1.
Bensman, Stephen J. op. cit. p. 285.
Bensman, Stephen J. op. cit. p. 283.
ibid.
As a rule, Bible research was not included. The Bible is not specific to Hebrew publishing, despite the fact that it is the Jewish Book of Books: 1. other nations have also adopted it for themselves 2. It has been printed in all languages, and therefore we would have had to make it clear to which specific Hebrew edition we were referring. For example, the ferrara Bible is a translation into Ladino printed in Latin characters, and therefore books and papers about it were not included in the database.
A further 11 publications were anonymous.
Half of the papers were written by the square root of the authors.
In all the following calculations we included only primary authors.
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Bibliographical research in the study of Hebrew Printing deals with publications printed in Hebrew script in languages such as: Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, and also writings that were printed in Hebrew transliteration, such as Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-German etc.
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Lapon-Kandelshein, E., Prebor, G. Bibliographical research in the study of Hebrew printing: a bibliometric analysis. Scientometrics 88, 899–913 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0423-9
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