The basics of scientometrics in Humanities and the necessity of forming a school of scientometrics

Scientometrics has played an important role in assessing and evaluating research performance in recent years. This science analyzes the growth and evolution of research over time by referring to standardized data of university research, especially bibliographic information. In fact, scientometrics, or the science of measuring science helps promote researchers, universities, and research centers through principled evaluation and ranking and leads to a better understanding of their strengths and weaknesses, playing an important role in public policymaking and scientific governance. Apart from the debate over the validity of scientometrics and the possibility of indigenous scientometrics, which is itself controversial in the academic community, whether scientometrics follows the same principles and logic in all sciences or needs a different logic for humanities scientometrics is one of the concerns of humanities scholars. This article, considering a general concept of philosophy and foundations of sciences and inspired by Lakatos and Mouffe's theory, uses descriptive and analytical methods to justify, on the one hand, the relative independence of humanities scientometrics from absolute scientometrics, and on the other hand, the possibility of forming a school of humanities scientometrics. Since the formation of the school of humanities scientometrics requires a practical depiction of it, six practical questions have been raised in this article based on qualitative research methods and initial answers have been provided to these questions.