IN WHICH BUSINESS ARE WE

I read the article of Glanzel and Schoepflin: Little Scientometrics, B ig Scientometrics ... and Beyond. This paper presents scientometrics i n a very pessimistic way, but, in my opinion it rises the following qu estion: in which business are we? Are we in the analysis of the scienc e production? Do we develop new tools to analyse the textual informati on? And, above all we use our results and for which purposes. It seems to me that if we answer those questions, a large step will be made in the understanding of the whereabout of our business.