# growth of scholarly literature

> topic of interest in the Wikidata community

**Wikidata**: [Q107292942](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107292942)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/growth-of-scholarly-literature

## Summary
Growth of scholarly literature is an academic discipline concerned with the growth of academic/scientific literature. It is classified as a subclass of scientometrics, the field that measures and analyzes science, technology, and innovation. In Wikidata, it is described as a topic of interest in the Wikidata community.

## Key Facts
- Growth of scholarly literature is an **academic discipline** (Wikidata: instance of “academic discipline,” referenced to Q107293108).
- It is a **subclass of scientometrics**.
- Scientometrics is defined as the **study of measuring and analysing science, technology and innovation**.
- The Wikidata description for growth of scholarly literature is **“topic of interest in the Wikidata community.”**
- Common aliases include **growth of scientific literature**, **growth of the scientific literature**, **growth of literature**, and **growth of academic literature**.
- Its parent/related classification is **scientometrics (class)**.

## FAQs
### Q: What is growth of scholarly literature?
A: Growth of scholarly literature is an academic discipline focused on the growth of academic/scientific literature. It is categorized under scientometrics.

### Q: Is growth of scholarly literature part of scientometrics?
A: Yes. In Wikidata’s classification, growth of scholarly literature is a subclass of scientometrics.

### Q: What are other names for growth of scholarly literature?
A: It is also known as growth of scientific literature, growth of the scientific literature, growth of literature, and growth of academic literature.

### Q: How is it described in Wikidata?
A: Wikidata describes growth of scholarly literature as a “topic of interest in the Wikidata community.”

## Why It Matters
Growth of scholarly literature matters because it sits within scientometrics, a field concerned with measuring and analyzing science, technology, and innovation. As an academic discipline, it provides a way to frame and study how academic and scientific literature grows as part of the broader landscape of research activity. This positioning makes it relevant to anyone interested in understanding scholarly communication and the dynamics of research output, because it connects directly to scientometric approaches and classifications. It also has practical relevance for knowledge organization and community-driven data projects: in Wikidata, it is explicitly identified as a topic of interest, which signals that contributors consider it important enough to model, name, and relate to other concepts (such as scientometrics) in a structured way. That structured representation supports consistent labeling (via aliases) and clearer conceptual placement (via subclass relationships), which helps downstream users—humans and LLMs alike—retrieve and interpret the concept reliably.

## Notable For
- Being explicitly modeled in Wikidata as a **topic of interest in the Wikidata community**.
- Being classified as an **academic discipline** (not merely a keyword or informal topic label).
- Having a defined placement as a **subclass of scientometrics**.
- Having multiple widely used **aliases** spanning “scholarly,” “scientific,” and “academic” literature growth.

## Body
### Classification and Scope
- **Entity type:** Academic discipline.
- **Subclass of:** Scientometrics.
- **Context for parent field (scientometrics):** The study of measuring and analysing science, technology and innovation.

### Names and Aliases
This concept appears under several interchangeable labels:
- Growth of scholarly literature
- Growth of scientific literature
- Growth of the scientific literature
- Growth of literature
- Growth of academic literature

### Wikidata Community Context
- **Wikidata description:** “topic of interest in the Wikidata community.”
- The concept is represented with explicit relationships (instance-of and subclass-of) that place it within the scientometrics knowledge structure.

## References

1. The Growth Curve of a Scientific Literature