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Bibliometric methods are too important to the scientific world due to their ability to evaluate not only individually scientist who have published their work but also jour-nals, websites and digital libraries that publish scientific papers. The results of these metrics can be used by academic facilities for faculty recruitment, fair promotion practices and by individual scientists for comparison of their personal scientific merit with competitors. On this paper, firstly, described and analyzed metrics that evaluate journals and websites, such as Impact Factor. Secondly, described individual indices, such as h-index and thirdly described and analyzed the most important digital Librar-ies and Databases, such as Google Scholar. During the description of these metrics mentioned their advantages and disadvantages, furthermore, the reasons who con-strained the experts to invent them. Finally, outlined the general benefits of biblio-metric analysis.