It publishes original studies, short communications, review papers, letters to the editor, and book reviews.

It is published by Akadémiai Kiadó and Springer Science+Business Media and was established in 1978.

Its founder and first editor-in-chief was Tibor Braun.

[7] Jeffrey Beall reported that the editor of Scientometrics initially reacted indifferently to the discovery of extended word-for-word plagiarism in a 2013 article.

[8] The authors in question had copied material from a source and provided a citation, but had not used quotation marks.