In this article, we try to find out what Vasiliy Nalimov and Zinaida Mul’chenko exactly wrote in their famous book Naukometriya, the Study of the Development of Science as an Information Process (1969). Afterward, the term Naukometriya became known in the West as Scientometrics.

It is often mentioned that Nalimov invented the term scientometrics, usually with reference to his book published in 1969. Shouldn’t Mul’chenko be mentioned as one of the inventors of this term? We show that referring to Naukometriya is a case of wrong reference, as Nalimov introduced the term already in 1966.

We further place the term scientometrics in the context of the science of science and of Soviet science during that period.

在这篇文章中，我们试图找出 Vasiliy Nalimov 和 Zinaida Mul'chenko 在他们的著名著作Naukometriya 中究竟写了什么，作为信息过程的科学发展研究（1969）。后来，Naukometriya 一词在西方被称为科学计量学。

人们经常提到纳利莫夫发明了科学计量学这个术语，通常是参考他 1969 年出版的书。难道不应该提到穆尔琴科是这个术语的发明者之一吗？我们表明，提到 Naukometriya 是一个错误的参考案例，因为 Nalimov 已经在 1966 年引入了该术语。

我们进一步将科学计量学一词置于那个时期的科学科学和苏联科学的背景下。