Informetrics with its frameworks and methods has long been playing a prominent role in the study of science–society communications. The aim of the present work is an exploratory study of this domain of research, via a scoping review based on enhanced bibliometric methods. The leading research questions concern the cognitive structure of the subject, its position in the broader context of science communication studies and social studies of science, and the role and contributions of informetrics in advancing the field. To overcome the difficulties stemming from the complex definition of the subject, we use an indirect, link-based search strategy for database construction. Our methodological framework consists of a combination of bibliographic coupling (identifying main research streams), various representations of semantic networks (analyzing the cognitive organization of individual research streams), and the systematic synthesis of the results we call quasi content analysis. Beyond uncovering the role and context of informetrics in the study of science–society communications, our results contribute to the conceptual clarifications on such timely issues as the meaning of altmetrics or the notion of social impact in recent informetrics paradigms.

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信息计量学和科学社会传播研究：文献计量范围审查

长期以来，信息计量学及其框架和方法一直在科学与社会交流的研究中发挥着重要作用。本工作的目的是通过基于增强的文献计量方法的范围审查，对该研究领域进行探索性研究。主要研究问题涉及该学科的认知结构、其在科学传播研究和科学社会研究的更广泛背景下的地位，以及信息计量学在推进该领域的作用和贡献。为了克服因主题的复杂定义而产生的困难，我们使用间接的、基于链接的搜索策略来构建数据库。我们的方法框架包括书目耦合（确定主要研究流）的组合，语义网络的各种表示（分析单个研究流的认知组织），以及我们称为准内容分析的结果的系统综合。除了揭示信息计量学在科学-社会传播研究中的作用和背景之外，我们的结果还有助于对诸如替代计量学的含义或最近信息计量学范式中社会影响的概念等及时问题的概念澄清。