Scientometrics is a type of scale or a study that allows the quantification of the contributions that a science offers to establish it as an economic activity or a discipline in an individual; This analysis is part of sociological thinking and is responsible for defining the application of a given science in a person's daily life, thus evaluating whether it is of great use or a waste of time. Like any quantifying method, scientometrics assesses the functionality of science in analysis through different scales, as well as investigates the development of research policies applied by different countries and the organizations that practice it, this is used both for the social sciences and the natural ones.
Scientometrics has an equal that is responsible for the analysis of science, it is known as "bibliometrics", these are applied in various scientific fields such as social sciences and the information industry. The most common topics of study in scientometrics are: development of disciplines governed by a specific science, the relationship between science and technology, creativity of researchers to determine the subject, relationship between scientific and economic fields and growth progressive of said science.
In other words, scientometrics is on a par with bibliometric tools that allow identifying existing information on the scientific and technological qualities of the subject analyzed; In this way , this scale is identified as the one that deals with recognizing the products of the science studied from a socioeconomic point of view.
